Discovering Amazon Kinesis Firehose
The core construct in KDF is a delivery stream. Data is ingested into a delivery stream from a source, and data is then delivered by the delivery stream to a configured destination.
The following diagram illustrates producers sending data to Amazon KDF and the delivery destinations it supports:
Let's talk about the delivery stream itself first, and then we will talk about each of the supported destinations in detail, followed by the various mechanisms to send data to KDF.
Understanding KDF delivery streams
The purpose of using a KDF delivery stream is to deliver streaming data to one of the supported destinations. Each delivery stream supports a single destination, so if the requirement is to send the same streaming data to multiple destinations, you need to create multiple delivery streams, each pointing to a...