Amazon Kinesis Data Streams increases default shard limits to up to 20,000 per AWS account
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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams has significantly increased its default shard limits, enhancing its data streaming capabilities across multiple regions.
- Default shard limit increased from 500 to 20,000 per AWS account in US East, US West, and Europe (Ireland) regions
- Supports processing up to 10 GB/sec ingress and 20 GB/sec egress per account by default
- Each shard provides 1 MB/sec ingress and 2 MB/sec egress throughput
- Shard limits in other regions increased from 200 to 1,000 or 6,000 per account
- Customers can view and request quota increases via AWS Service Quotas console
This enhancement allows customers to build more scalable, real-time data streaming applications with greater throughput and flexibility.
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