Document history
The following table describes the important changes to the Amazon Kinesis Data Streams documentation.
| Change | Description | Date Changed |
|---|---|---|
| Added support for sharing data streams across acounts. | Added Share your data stream with another account. | November 22, 2023 |
| Added support for the on-demand and provisioned data stream capacity modes. | Added Choose the data stream capacity mode. | November 29, 2021 |
| New content for server-side encryption. | Added Data protection in Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. | July 7, 2017 |
| New content for enhanced CloudWatch metrics. | Updated Monitor Kinesis Data Streams. | April 19, 2016 |
| New content for enhanced Kinesis agent. | Updated Write to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams using Kinesis Agent. | April 11, 2016 |
| New content for using Kinesis agents. | Added Write to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams using Kinesis Agent. | October 2, 2015 |
| Update KPL content for release 0.10.0. | Added Develop producers using the Amazon Kinesis Producer Library (KPL). | July 15, 2015 |
| Update KCL metrics topic for configurable metrics. | Added Monitor the Kinesis Client Library with Amazon CloudWatch. | July 9, 2015 |
| Re-organized content. | Significantly re-organized content topics for more concise tree view and more logical grouping. | July 01, 2015 |
| New KPL developer's guide topic. | Added Develop producers using the Amazon Kinesis Producer Library (KPL). | June 02, 2015 |
| New KCL metrics topic. | Added Monitor the Kinesis Client Library with Amazon CloudWatch. | May 19, 2015 |
| Support for KCL .NET | Added Develop a Kinesis Client Library consumer in .NET. | May 1, 2015 |
| Support for KCL Node.js | Added Develop a Kinesis Client Library consumer in Node.js. | March 26, 2015 |
| Support for KCL Ruby | Added links to KCL Ruby library. | January 12, 2015 |
| New API PutRecords | Added information about new PutRecords API to Add multiple records with PutRecords. | December 15, 2014 |
| Support for tagging | Added Tag your streams in Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. | September 11, 2014 |
| New CloudWatch metric | Added the metric GetRecords.IteratorAgeMilliseconds to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams dimensions and metrics. |
September 3, 2014 |
| New monitoring chapter | Added Monitor Kinesis Data Streams and Monitor the Amazon Kinesis Data Streams service with Amazon CloudWatch. | July 30, 2014 |
| Default shard limit | Updated the Quotas and limits: the default shard limit has been raised from 5 to 10. | February 25, 2014 |
| Default shard limit | Updated the Quotas and limits: the default shard limit has been raised from 2 to 5. | January 28, 2014 |
| API version updates | Updates for version 2013-12-02 of the Kinesis Data Streams API. | December 12, 2013 |
| Initial release | Initial release of the Amazon Kinesis Developer Guide. | November 14, 2013 |