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Kinesis S3 Delivery Walkthrough

Prerequisites

Progress checklist

Overview

Section titled “Overview”

Finish Install tooling first. This page covers the AWS account shape and feature constraints before you create resources.

This lab creates billable resources: an On-Demand Kinesis Data Streams
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams — the source stream that hosts the delivery channel. stream, a delivery channel
Delivery channel created with create-channel. The console labels the same resource S3 general purpose delivery., a general purpose S3 bucket, and an IAM service execution role
IAM role assumed by kinesis.amazonaws.com to write objects. Trust policy uses aws:SourceAccount and aws:SourceArn matching channel/*.. An active channel keeps billing until you delete it.

What you need

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PieceNotes
ToolingAWS CLI ≥ 2.36.35 (demo pin 2.36.38), Java 11+, Maven, jq — see Install tooling
AWS accountOperator credentials with permission to create streams, channels, buckets, and IAM roles
Named profileAWS_PROFILE=sandbox — demo.sh refuses an implicit account
RegionDefault lab Region is ap-southeast-2 (Kinesis+CreateChannel available there)

Hard requirements

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  • The stream must use On-Demand Standard or On-Demand Advantage. Provisioned streams cannot host a delivery channel.
  • The destination bucket must be in the same Region as the stream.
  • Only records written after the channel reaches ACTIVE are delivered — there is no backfill.

Environment check

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Terminal window
export AWS_PROFILE=sandbox
export AWS_REGION=ap-southeast-2
aws sts get-caller-identity
aws --version
# expect aws-cli/2.36.35 or newer (demo: 2.36.38)

Next

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Continue to the CLI overview.

References

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