AsyncAPI channel · Amazon Kinesis · Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

kinesis/{streamName}/{shardId}

A shard within a Kinesis data stream. Each shard is an append-only, ordered sequence of data records. Producers write records to shards via partition keys, and consumers read records sequentially. Each shard provides 1 MiB/sec write capacity and 2 MiB/sec read capacity (shared among polling consumers), or 2 MiB/sec dedicated throughput per enhanced fan-out consumer.

Open source AsyncAPI → All Amazon Kinesis channels Amazon Kinesis provider profile
Provider: Amazon Kinesis AsyncAPI: v3.0.0 Spec: Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Operations: 2 Messages: 2

Channel address

kinesis/{streamName}/{shardId}

Parameters

Operations

send
publishRecord
A producer writes a data record to a Kinesis data stream shard. Each record includes a data blob (up to 1 MiB), a partition key, and optionally an explicit hash key. The partition key determines which
receive
consumeRecordsByPolling
A consumer polls for data records from a shard using GetRecords with a shard iterator obtained from GetShardIterator. Each call returns up to 10,000 records or 10 MiB.

Messages

KinesisRecord
A single data record in a Kinesis data stream. Each record contains a data blob, partition key, and is assigned a unique sequence number and approximate arrival timestamp by the service.
Content-Type: application/json
SubscribeToShardEvent
An event pushed to an enhanced fan-out consumer over an HTTP/2 connection. Contains a batch of data records along with a continuation sequence number and lag metrics.
Content-Type: application/json

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The AsyncAPI specification describes event-driven APIs the way OpenAPI describes request/response APIs. A channel is the named pipe — a webhook URL, a Kafka topic, a WebSocket route, an MQTT subject — that producers and consumers publish or subscribe to. Each channel carries one or more messages with structured payloads, and an operation declares whether a given party sends or receives on that channel.

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