Amazon Kinesis Data Streams announces Service-Managed Partition Keys for simplified data ingestion
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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams announces service-managed partition keys for simplified data ingestion without manual partition key specification.
- Automatically distributes records across shards for On-Demand Standard and On-Demand Advantage streams
- Eliminates hot partition keys and uneven throughput distribution issues
- Ideal for workloads without ordering requirements like log aggregation and IoT telemetry
- Scales to gigabytes per second without maintaining distribution logic
- Available in all AWS commercial regions at no additional cost
- Requires latest AWS SDK or Kinesis Producer Library version
Service-managed partition keys simplify streaming data ingestion and reduce time to production for on-demand Kinesis workloads.
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