Amazon Kinesis Updates

Concise summaries of official AWS update announcements for Amazon Kinesis.

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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams announces Service-Managed Partition Keys for simplified data ingestion

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports service-managed partition keys for On-Demand Standard and On-Demand Advantage streams, automatically distributing records across shards without requiring customers to specify partition keys, simplifying data ingestion for workloads where record ordering is not required.

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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports a dry run feature to validate API requests

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams adds a dry run feature for API requests, allowing customers to safely validate permissions before interacting with a stream in production.

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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports scaling down ingest capacity with warm throughput

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now allows scaling down ingest capacity for on-demand streams. This enables users to adjust write throughput up or down as needed.