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What throughput does one Kinesis shard provide?
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1 MB/s or 1,000 records/s for writes, and 2 MB/s for reads.
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Q: What throughput does one Kinesis shard provide?
A: 1 MB/s or 1,000 records/s for writes, and 2 MB/s for reads.
Q: What is the difference between Kinesis Data Streams and Firehose?
A: Data Streams requires custom consumers and manages shards; Firehose is fully managed delivery to S3, Redshift, or OpenSearch.
Q: What is enhanced fan-out?
A: A KDS feature that provides 2 MB/s dedicated read throughput per registered consumer.
Q: What does Kinesis Data Analytics do?
A: Runs real-time SQL or Apache Flink applications on streaming data.
Q: How do you increase KDS throughput?
A: Add more shards via resharding (split shards).
Q: What is the maximum retention period for Kinesis Data Streams?
A: 365 days (default is 24 hours).