Develop enhanced fan-out consumers with KCL 2.x - Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
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Develop enhanced fan-out consumers with KCL 2.x

Important

Amazon Kinesis Client Library (KCL) versions 1.x and 2.x are outdated. KCL 1.x will reach end-of-support on January 30, 2026. We strongly recommend that you migrate your KCL applications using version 1.x to the latest KCL version before January 30, 2026. To find the latest KCL version, see Amazon Kinesis Client Library page on GitHub. For information about the latest KCL versions, see Use Kinesis Client Library. For information about migrating from KCL 1.x to KCL 3.x, see Migrating from KCL 1.x to KCL 3.x.

Consumers that use enhanced fan-out in Amazon Kinesis Data Streams can receive records from a data stream with dedicated throughput of up to 2 MB of data per second per shard. This type of consumer doesn't have to contend with other consumers that are receiving data from the stream. For more information, see Develop enhanced fan-out consumers with dedicated throughput.

You can use version 2.0 or later of the Kinesis Client Library (KCL) to develop applications that use enhanced fan-out to receive data from streams. The KCL automatically subscribes your application to all the shards of a stream, and ensures that your consumer application can read with a throughput value of 2 MB/sec per shard. If you want to use the KCL without turning on enhanced fan-out, see Developing Consumers Using the Kinesis Client Library 2.0.

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