# Amazon Kinesis Data Streams endpoints and quotas
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To connect programmatically to an AWS service, you use an endpoint. AWS services offer the following endpoint types in some or all of the AWS Regions that the service supports: IPv4 endpoints, dual-stack endpoints, and FIPS endpoints. Some services provide global endpoints. For more information, see [AWS service endpoints](rande.md).

Service quotas, also referred to as limits, are the maximum number of service resources or operations for your AWS account. For more information, see [AWS service quotas](aws_service_limits.md).

The following are the service endpoints and service quotas for this service.

## Service endpoints
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## Service quotas
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If you’re using strict security policies that require explicit allowlisting of service endpoints, you must also allowlist the following account-level endpoints to ensure Kinesis Data Streams actions succeed.
+ **Control-plane APIs**: `*.control-kinesis.<Region>.amazonaws.com and *.control-kinesis.<Region>.api.aws`
+ **Data-plane APIs**: `*.data-kinesis.<Region>.amazonaws.com and *.data-kinesis.<Region>.api.aws`

The `.api.aws` endpoints are dual stack endpoints that accept IPv6 requests. 

For more information, see [Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Quotas](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/streams/latest/dev/service-sizes-and-limits.html) in the *Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Developer Guide*.