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Shard - Amazon DynamoDB

Shard

A uniquely identified group of stream records within a stream.

Contents

Note

In the following list, the required parameters are described first.

ParentShardId

The shard ID of the current shard's parent.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 28. Maximum length of 65.

Required: No

SequenceNumberRange

The range of possible sequence numbers for the shard.

Type: SequenceNumberRange object

Required: No

ShardId

The system-generated identifier for this shard.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 28. Maximum length of 65.

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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