Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports 10x larger record sizes
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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams has enhanced its capabilities by increasing record size support from 1MiB to 10MiB, providing significant improvements for data streaming.
- Record size increased from 1MiB to 10MiB (10x larger)
- PutRecords request size doubled from 5MiB to 10MiB
- Supports simplified data pipeline management for IoT, change data capture, and generative AI workloads
- Can update stream's maximum record size via AWS Management Console or UpdateMaxRecordSize API
- No additional costs beyond standard Kinesis data streams charges
- AWS Lambda now supports larger payloads up to 6MiB from Kinesis Data Streams
The enhancement allows customers to publish larger data payloads without maintaining separate processing pipelines, reducing operational complexity.
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