Kinesis code examples for the SDK for Python

Overview

Shows how to use the AWS SDK for Python (Boto3) to work with Amazon Kinesis.

Kinesis makes it easy to collect, process, and analyze video and data streams in real time.

⚠ Important

• Running this code might result in charges to your AWS account. For more details, see AWS Pricing and Free Tier.
• Running the tests might result in charges to your AWS account.
• We recommend that you grant your code least privilege. At most, grant only the minimum permissions required to perform the task. For more information, see Grant least privilege.
• This code is not tested in every AWS Region. For more information, see AWS Regional Services.

Code examples

Prerequisites

For prerequisites, see the README in the python folder.

Install the packages required by these examples by running the following in a virtual environment:

python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Single actions

Code excerpts that show you how to call individual service functions.

• CreateStream
• DeleteStream
• DescribeStream
• GetRecords
• PutRecord

Run the examples

Instructions

The action examples in this section are demonstrated as part of an Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink scenario that reads data from an input stream, uses SQL code to transform the data, and writes it to an output stream. Run the scenario at a command prompt in the kinesis-analytics-v2 folder with the following command:

python kinesisanalyticsv2_demo.py

Tests

⚠ Running tests might result in charges to your AWS account.

To find instructions for running these tests, see the README in the python folder.

Additional resources

• Kinesis Developer Guide
• Kinesis API Reference
• SDK for Python Kinesis reference

• SDK for Python Kinesis Data Analytics reference

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