Super simple AWS Kinesis data streams client in Python

Your Kinesis streams is collecting data and you need a simple and fast way to access those data for testing purpose or a custom processing. You can achieve this in 3 steps:

1. Get the shard id.
2. Get the shard iterator.
3. Get the records.

Follow those steps in any programming language supported by AWS API. Here’s an example written in Python:

For more advanced processing, consider using the Kinesis Client Library.

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