github.com/jrasell/terraform@v0.6.17-0.20160523115548-2652f5232949/website/source/docs/providers/aws/r/kinesis_stream.html.markdown (about) 1 --- 2 layout: "aws" 3 page_title: "AWS: aws_kinesis_stream" 4 sidebar_current: "docs-aws-resource-kinesis-stream" 5 description: |- 6 Provides a AWS Kinesis Stream 7 --- 8 9 # aws\_kinesis\_stream 10 11 Provides a Kinesis Stream resource. Amazon Kinesis is a managed service that 12 scales elastically for real-time processing of streaming big data. 13 14 For more details, see the [Amazon Kinesis Documentation][1]. 15 16 ## Example Usage 17 18 ``` 19 resource "aws_kinesis_stream" "test_stream" { 20 name = "terraform-kinesis-test" 21 shard_count = 1 22 retention_period = 48 23 tags { 24 Environment = "test" 25 } 26 } 27 ``` 28 29 ## Argument Reference 30 31 The following arguments are supported: 32 33 * `name` - (Required) A name to identify the stream. This is unique to the 34 AWS account and region the Stream is created in. 35 * `shard_count` – (Required) The number of shards that the stream will use. 36 Amazon has guidlines for specifying the Stream size that should be referenced 37 when creating a Kinesis stream. See [Amazon Kinesis Streams][2] for more. 38 * `retention_period` - (Optional) Length of time data records are accessible after they are added to the stream. The maximum value of a stream's retention period is 168 hours. Minimum value is 24. Default is 24. 39 * `tags` - (Optional) A mapping of tags to assign to the resource. 40 41 ## Attributes Reference 42 43 * `id` - The unique Stream id 44 * `name` - The unique Stream name (same as `id`) 45 * `shard_count` - The count of Shards for this Stream 46 * `arn` - The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) specifying the Stream 47 48 49 [1]: https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/kinesis/ 50 [2]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kinesis/latest/dev/amazon-kinesis-streams.html