Enable decompression on a new Firehose stream from console - Amazon Data Firehose
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Enable decompression on a new Firehose stream from console

To enable decompression on a new Firehose stream using the Amazon Web Services Management Console

  1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console and open the Kinesis console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/kinesis.

  2. Choose Amazon Data Firehose in the navigation pane.

  3. Choose Create Firehose stream.

  4. Under Choose source and destination

    Source

    The source of your Firehose stream. Choose one of the following sources:

    • Direct PUT – Choose this option to create a Firehose stream that producer applications write to directly. For a list of Amazon services and agents and open source services that are integrated with Direct PUT in Firehose, see this section.

    • Kinesis stream: Choose this option to configure a Firehose stream that uses a Kinesis data stream as a data source. You can then use Firehose to read data easily from an existing Kinesis data stream and load it into destinations. For more information, see Writing to Firehose Using Kinesis Data Streams

    Destination

    The destination of your Firehose stream. Choose one of the following:

    • Amazon S3

    • Splunk

  5. Under Firehose stream name, enter a name for your stream.

  6. (Optional) Under Transform records:

    • In the Decompress source records from Amazon CloudWatch Logs section, choose Turn on decompression.

    • If you want to use message extraction after decompression, choose Turn on message extraction.