Amazon Kinesis Records API
Operations for putting and getting data records to and from a stream.
Amazon Kinesis Records API is one of 11 APIs that Amazon Kinesis publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification and an AsyncAPI event-driven specification.
This API exposes 2 JSON Schema definitions.
Tagged areas include Records. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an AsyncAPI specification, a JSON-LD context, pricing, a getting-started guide, and 2 JSON Schemas.
This API exposes 4 operations across 4 paths, and defines 21 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 2013-12-02.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://kinesis.{region}.amazonaws.com.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Amazon Kinesis Records API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
An API key is passed in the header as Authorization (aws_sigv4).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
aws_sigv4— AWS Signature Version 4 authentication. Requests must be signed with the access key ID and secret access key of an IAM principal.
Paths & Operations 4
Across 4 paths, the API surfaces 4 operations — 4 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Operations for putting and getting data records to and from a stream.
Schemas 21
The contract defines 21 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are PutRecordInput (6 properties), GetShardIteratorInput (6 properties), Record (5 properties), PutRecordsResultEntry (4 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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