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layout: "aws"
page_title: "AWS: aws_kinesis_stream"
sidebar_current: "docs-aws-resource-kinesis-stream"
description: |-
  Provides a AWS Kinesis Stream
---

# aws\_kinesis\_stream

Provides a Kinesis Stream resource. Amazon Kinesis is a managed service that
scales elastically for real-time processing of streaming big data.

For more details, see the [Amazon Kinesis Documentation][1].

## Example Usage

```hcl
resource "aws_kinesis_stream" "test_stream" {
  name             = "terraform-kinesis-test"
  shard_count      = 1
  retention_period = 48

  shard_level_metrics = [
    "IncomingBytes",
    "OutgoingBytes",
  ]

  tags {
    Environment = "test"
  }
}
```

## Argument Reference

The following arguments are supported:

* `name` - (Required) A name to identify the stream. This is unique to the
AWS account and region the Stream is created in.
* `shard_count` – (Required) The number of shards that the stream will use.
Amazon has guidlines for specifying the Stream size that should be referenced
when creating a Kinesis stream. See [Amazon Kinesis Streams][2] for more.
* `retention_period` - (Optional) Length of time data records are accessible after they are added to the stream. The maximum value of a stream's retention period is 168 hours. Minimum value is 24. Default is 24.
* `shard_level_metrics` - (Optional) A list of shard-level CloudWatch metrics which can be enabled for the stream. See [Monitoring with CloudWatch][3] for more. Note that the value ALL should not be used; instead you should provide an explicit list of metrics you wish to enable.
* `tags` - (Optional) A mapping of tags to assign to the resource.

## Attributes Reference

* `id` - The unique Stream id
* `name` - The unique Stream name (same as `id`)
* `shard_count` - The count of Shards for this Stream
* `arn` - The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) specifying the Stream


## Import

Kinesis Streams can be imported using the `name`, e.g.

```
$ terraform import aws_kinesis_stream.test_stream terraform-kinesis-test
```

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/kinesis/
[2]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kinesis/latest/dev/amazon-kinesis-streams.html
[3]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/streams/latest/dev/monitoring-with-cloudwatch.html