Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports up to 50 enhanced fan-out consumers

This article announces that Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports up to 50 enhanced fan-out consumers for On-demand Advantage streams, enabling more independent, low-latency consumers without throughput contention.

• Increased fan-out limit from previous maximum to 50 enhanced fan-out consumers
• Supports parallel analytics, ML pipelines, compliance workflows, and multi-team architectures
• On-demand Advantage pricing: 60% lower than On-demand Standard
• Data ingest at $0.032/GB, retrieval at $0.016/GB, enhanced fan-out at $0.016/GB
• Enhanced fan-out provides 2 MB/second per shard dedicated throughput
• Consumers don't contend with other consumers for throughput
• Available across multiple AWS Regions

This enhancement makes Kinesis Data Streams more cost-effective for high fan-out workloads by allowing many independent consumers on a single stream.