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Kinesis Streams Shards

Kinesis Streams ShardsΒΆ

  • One steam is made of many different shards
  • 1MB/s or 1000 messages/s at write PER [[SHARD]]
  • 2MB/s at read PER SHARD
  • Billing is per shard provisioned, can have as many shards as you want
  • Batching available or per message calls
  • The number of shards can evolve over time ([[reshard]] / [[merge]])
  • Records are ordered per shard