# Amazon Data Firehose in Amazon Web Services China
<a name="firehose"></a>

 Amazon Data Firehose is part of the Kinesis streaming data platform. With Firehose, you don’t need to write applications or manage resources. You configure your data procedures to send data to Firehose, and it automatically delivers the data to the destination that you specified. You can also configure Firehose to transform your data before delivering it.

## Region availability
<a name="feature-regions"></a>

 Amazon Data Firehose is available in the following regions in China:
+  China (Beijing) Region
+  China (Ningxia) Region

## How Firehose differs
<a name="feature-diff"></a>

The following differences apply to Amazon Data Firehose:
+ There are no implementation differences or differences in feature availability for Firehose between global and China Regions.

## Documentation
<a name="feature-guides"></a>
+  [Amazon Data Firehose Developer Guide](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/firehose/latest/dev/) 
+  [Amazon Data Firehose API Reference](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/firehose/latest/APIReference/)