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Connection
aws configure
Configure AWS CLI with access key, secret key, region, and output format
aws kinesis help
Display AWS Kinesis CLI help documentation
Stream Operations
aws kinesis create-stream --stream-name --shard-count
Create a new Kinesis data stream
aws kinesis delete-stream --stream-name
Delete a Kinesis data stream
aws kinesis list-streams
List all Kinesis streams in your account
aws kinesis describe-stream --stream-name
Get detailed information about a stream
aws kinesis update-shard-count --stream-name --target-shard-count --scaling-type UNIFORM_SCALING
Change the number of shards in a stream
Data Operations
aws kinesis put-record --stream-name --data --partition-key
Write a single data record to a stream
aws kinesis put-records --stream-name --records file://records.json
Write multiple data records to a stream
aws kinesis get-records --shard-iterator
Retrieve data records from a shard
aws kinesis get-shard-iterator --stream-name --shard-id --shard-iterator-type
Get a shard iterator for reading data
Monitoring
aws kinesis describe-stream-summary --stream-name
Get summary of stream capacity and usage
aws cloudwatch get-metric-statistics --namespace AWS/Kinesis --metric-name --dimensions Name=StreamName,Value= --start-time --end-time --period --statistics
Get Kinesis metrics from CloudWatch
Consumers
aws kinesis register-stream-consumer --stream-arn --consumer-name
Register a consumer with enhanced fan-out
aws kinesis list-stream-consumers --stream-arn
List all consumers registered with a stream
aws kinesis describe-stream-consumer --stream-arn --consumer-name
Get details about a specific consumer
aws kinesis deregister-stream-consumer --stream-arn --consumer-name
Deregister a consumer from a stream
Tags
aws kinesis add-tags-to-stream --stream-name --tags
Add tags to a stream
aws kinesis list-tags-for-stream --stream-name
List all tags for a stream
aws kinesis remove-tags-from-stream --stream-name --tag-keys
Remove tags from a stream