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put_record

Operation

put_record async

put_record(input: PutRecordInput, plugins: list[Plugin] | None = None) -> PutRecordOutput

Writes a single data record into an Amazon Kinesis data stream. Call PutRecord to send data into the stream for real-time ingestion and subsequent processing, one record at a time. Each shard can support writes up to 1,000 records per second, up to a maximum data write total of 10 MiB per second.

Note

When invoking this API, you must use either the StreamARN or the StreamName parameter, or both. It is recommended that you use the StreamARN input parameter when you invoke this API.

You must specify the name of the stream that captures, stores, and transports the data; a partition key; and the data blob itself.

The data blob can be any type of data; for example, a segment from a log file, geographic/location data, website clickstream data, and so on.

The partition key is used by Kinesis Data Streams to distribute data across shards. Kinesis Data Streams segregates the data records that belong to a stream into multiple shards, using the partition key associated with each data record to determine the shard to which a given data record belongs.

Partition keys are Unicode strings, with a maximum length limit of 256 characters for each key. An MD5 hash function is used to map partition keys to 128-bit integer values and to map associated data records to shards using the hash key ranges of the shards. You can override hashing the partition key to determine the shard by explicitly specifying a hash value using the ExplicitHashKey parameter. For more information, see Adding Data to a Stream in the Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Developer Guide.

PutRecord returns the shard ID of where the data record was placed and the sequence number that was assigned to the data record.

Sequence numbers increase over time and are specific to a shard within a stream, not across all shards within a stream. To guarantee strictly increasing ordering, write serially to a shard and use the SequenceNumberForOrdering parameter. For more information, see Adding Data to a Stream in the Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Developer Guide.

Warning

After you write a record to a stream, you cannot modify that record or its order within the stream.

If a PutRecord request cannot be processed because of insufficient provisioned throughput on the shard involved in the request, PutRecord throws ProvisionedThroughputExceededException.

By default, data records are accessible for 24 hours from the time that they are added to a stream. You can use IncreaseStreamRetentionPeriod or DecreaseStreamRetentionPeriod to modify this retention period.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
input PutRecordInput

An instance of PutRecordInput.

required
plugins list[Plugin] | None

A list of callables that modify the configuration dynamically. Changes made by these plugins only apply for the duration of the operation execution and will not affect any other operation invocations.

None

Returns:

Type Description
PutRecordOutput

An instance of PutRecordOutput.

Input

PutRecordInput dataclass

Bases: _SerdeShape

Represents the input for PutRecord.

Attributes

data class-attribute instance-attribute
data: bytes | None = ...

The data blob to put into the record, which is base64-encoded when the blob is serialized. When the data blob (the payload before base64-encoding) is added to the partition key size, the total size must not exceed the maximum record size (10 MiB).

dry_run class-attribute instance-attribute
dry_run: bool | None = ...

Checks if your request will succeed. DryRun is an optional parameter.

explicit_hash_key class-attribute instance-attribute
explicit_hash_key: str | None = ...

The hash value used to explicitly determine the shard the data record is assigned to by overriding the partition key hash.

partition_key class-attribute instance-attribute
partition_key: str | None = ...

Determines which shard in the stream the data record is assigned to. Partition keys are Unicode strings with a maximum length limit of 256 characters for each key. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams uses the partition key as input to a hash function that maps the partition key and associated data to a specific shard. Specifically, an MD5 hash function is used to map partition keys to 128-bit integer values and to map associated data records to shards. As a result of this hashing mechanism, all data records with the same partition key map to the same shard within the stream.

If the stream uses the USER_PARTITION_KEY record distribution strategy (the default), a partition key is required. If the stream uses the AUTO record distribution strategy, the partition key is optional and any value you provide is ignored, along with any ExplicitHashKey you provide. In that case, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams distributes the record across shards using service-managed algorithms. For more information, see UpdateStreamRecordDistributionStrategy.

sequence_number_for_ordering class-attribute instance-attribute
sequence_number_for_ordering: str | None = ...

Guarantees strictly increasing sequence numbers, for puts from the same client and to the same partition key. Usage: set the SequenceNumberForOrdering of record n to the sequence number of record n-1 (as returned in the result when putting record n-1). If this parameter is not set, records are coarsely ordered based on arrival time.

stream_arn class-attribute instance-attribute
stream_arn: str | None = ...

The ARN of the stream.

stream_id class-attribute instance-attribute
stream_id: str | None = ...

Not Implemented. Reserved for future use.

stream_name class-attribute instance-attribute
stream_name: str | None = ...

The name of the stream to put the data record into.

Output

PutRecordOutput dataclass

Bases: _SerdeShape

Represents the output for PutRecord.

Attributes

encryption_type class-attribute instance-attribute
encryption_type: str | None = ...

The encryption type to use on the record. This parameter can be one of the following values:

  • NONE: Do not encrypt the records in the stream.

  • KMS: Use server-side encryption on the records in the stream using a customer-managed Amazon Web Services KMS key.

response_metadata class-attribute instance-attribute
response_metadata: ResponseMetadata = ...

Metadata about the response that produced this output. Use this to recover the request identifiers a service's support team needs in order to investigate a call. Members of the metadata are individually optional.

sequence_number instance-attribute
sequence_number: str

The sequence number identifier that was assigned to the put data record. The sequence number for the record is unique across all records in the stream. A sequence number is the identifier associated with every record put into the stream.

shard_id instance-attribute
shard_id: str

The shard ID of the shard where the data record was placed.