Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose | Pricing and Billing

Question 1

How do I log API calls made to my Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream for security analysis and operational troubleshooting?

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Answer 1

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose integrates with Amazon CloudTrail, a service that records AWS API calls for your account and delivers log files to you. For more information about API call logging and a list of supported Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose API operations, see Logging Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose API calls Using Amazon CloudTrail.

Question 2

Is Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose available in the AWS Free Tier?

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Answer 2

No. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is not currently available in AWS Free Tier. AWS Free Tier is a program that offers free trial for a group of AWS services. For more details see AWS Free Tier.

Question 3

How much does Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose cost?

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Answer 3

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose uses simple pay as you go pricing. There is neither upfront cost nor minimum fees and you only pay for the resources you use. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose pricing is based on the data volume (GB) ingested by Firehose, with each record rounded up to the nearest 5KB. For more information about Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose cost, see Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Pricing.

Question 4

When I use PutRecordBatch operation to send data to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, how is the 5KB roundup calculated?

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Answer 4

The 5KB roundup is calculated at the record level rather than the API operation level. For example, if your PutRecordBatch call contains two 1KB records, the data volume from that call is metered as 10KB. (5KB per record)