Document History
The following table describes the important changes to the Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose documentation.
| Change | Description | Date Changed |
|---|---|---|
| Added Splunk Observability Cloud as a destination | You can create a delivery stream with Splunk Observability Cloud as the destination. See Choose Splunk Observability Cloud for Your Destination. | October 3, 2023 |
| Added Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka as a data source | You can now configure Amazon MSK to send information to a Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream. See Writing to Kinesis Data Firehose Using Amazon MSK. | September 26th, 2023 |
| Added support for DocumentID type for the OpenSearch Service destination | If OpenSearch Service is your delivery stream's destination, DocumentID type indicates the method for setting up document ID. The supported methods are Kinesis Data Firehose generated document ID and OpenSearch Service generated document ID. See Destination Settings. | May 10th, 2023 |
| Added support dynamic partitioning | Added support for continuous dynamic partitioning of the streaming data in Kinesis Data Firehose. See Dynamic Partitioning in Kinesis Data Firehose. | August 31, 2021 |
| Added a topic on custom prefixes. | Added a topic about the expressions that you can use when building a custom prefix for data that is delivered to Amazon S3. See Custom Prefixes for Amazon S3 Objects. | December 20, 2018 |
| Added New Kinesis Data Firehose Tutorial | Added a tutorial that demonstrates how to send Amazon VPC flow logs to Splunk through Kinesis Data Firehose. See Tutorial: Sending VPC Flow Logs to Splunk Using Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. | October 30, 2018 |
| Added Four New Kinesis Data Firehose Regions | Added Paris, Mumbai, Sao Paulo, and London. For more information, see Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Quota. | June 27, 2018 |
| Added Two New Kinesis Data Firehose Regions | Added Seoul and Montreal. For more information, see Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Quota. | June 13, 2018 |
| New Kinesis Streams as Source feature | Added Kinesis Streams as a potential source for records for a Firehose Delivery Stream. For more information, see Source, Destination, and Name. | August 18, 2017 |
| Update to console documentation | The delivery stream creation wizard was updated. For more information, see Creating an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Delivery Stream. | July 19, 2017 |
| New data transformation | You can configure Kinesis Data Firehose to transform your data before data delivery. For more information, see Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Data Transformation. | December 19, 2016 |
| New Amazon Redshift COPY retry | You can configure Kinesis Data Firehose to retry a COPY command to your Amazon Redshift cluster if it fails. For more information, see Creating an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Delivery Stream, Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Data Delivery, and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Quota. | May 18, 2016 |
| New Kinesis Data Firehose destination, Amazon OpenSearch Service | You can create a delivery stream with Amazon OpenSearch Service as the destination. For more information, see Creating an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Delivery Stream, Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Data Delivery, and Grant Kinesis Data Firehose Access to a Public OpenSearch Service Destination. | April 19, 2016 |
| New enhanced CloudWatch metrics and troubleshooting features | Updated Monitoring Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose and Troubleshooting Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. | April 19, 2016 |
| New enhanced Kinesis agent | Updated Writing to Kinesis Data Firehose Using Kinesis Agent. | April 11, 2016 |
| New Kinesis agents | Added Writing to Kinesis Data Firehose Using Kinesis Agent. | October 2, 2015 |
| Initial release | Initial release of the Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Developer Guide. | October 4, 2015 |