# kinesis ## Description Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a managed service that scales elastically for real-time processing of streaming big data. ## Available Commands * [add-tags-to-stream](add-tags-to-stream.md) * [create-channel](create-channel.md) * [create-stream](create-stream.md) * [decrease-stream-retention-period](decrease-stream-retention-period.md) * [delete-channel](delete-channel.md) * [delete-resource-policy](delete-resource-policy.md) * [delete-stream](delete-stream.md) * [deregister-stream-consumer](deregister-stream-consumer.md) * [describe-account-settings](describe-account-settings.md) * [describe-channel](describe-channel.md) * [describe-limits](describe-limits.md) * [describe-stream](describe-stream.md) * [describe-stream-consumer](describe-stream-consumer.md) * [describe-stream-summary](describe-stream-summary.md) * [disable-enhanced-monitoring](disable-enhanced-monitoring.md) * [enable-enhanced-monitoring](enable-enhanced-monitoring.md) * [get-records](get-records.md) * [get-resource-policy](get-resource-policy.md) * [get-shard-iterator](get-shard-iterator.md) * [increase-stream-retention-period](increase-stream-retention-period.md) * [list-channels](list-channels.md) * [list-shards](list-shards.md) * [list-stream-consumers](list-stream-consumers.md) * [list-streams](list-streams.md) * [list-tags-for-resource](list-tags-for-resource.md) * [list-tags-for-stream](list-tags-for-stream.md) * [merge-shards](merge-shards.md) * [put-record](put-record.md) * [put-records](put-records.md) * [put-resource-policy](put-resource-policy.md) * [register-stream-consumer](register-stream-consumer.md) * [remove-tags-from-stream](remove-tags-from-stream.md) * [split-shard](split-shard.md) * [start-stream-encryption](start-stream-encryption.md) * [stop-stream-encryption](stop-stream-encryption.md) * [tag-resource](tag-resource.md) * [untag-resource](untag-resource.md) * [update-account-settings](update-account-settings.md) * [update-channel](update-channel.md) * [update-max-record-size](update-max-record-size.md) * [update-shard-count](update-shard-count.md) * [update-stream-mode](update-stream-mode.md) * [update-stream-record-distribution-strategy](update-stream-record-distribution-strategy.md) * [update-stream-warm-throughput](update-stream-warm-throughput.md) * [wait](wait/index.md)