Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose | Key Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Concepts

Question 1

What are the limits of Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose?

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Answer 1

For information about limits, see Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Limits in the developer guide.

Question 2

What is a delivery stream?

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Answer 2

A delivery stream is the underlying entity of Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. You use Firehose by creating a delivery stream and then sending data to it.

Question 3

What is a record?

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Answer 3

A record is the data of interest your data producer sends to a delivery stream. The maximum size of a record (before Base64-encoding) is 1000 KB.