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/AWS1/CL_FRH=>CREATEDELIVERYSTREAM()

About CreateDeliveryStream

Creates a Firehose stream.

By default, you can create up to 50 Firehose streams per Amazon Web Services Region.

This is an asynchronous operation that immediately returns. The initial status of the Firehose stream is CREATING. After the Firehose stream is created, its status is ACTIVE and it now accepts data. If the Firehose stream creation fails, the status transitions to CREATING_FAILED. Attempts to send data to a delivery stream that is not in the ACTIVE state cause an exception. To check the state of a Firehose stream, use DescribeDeliveryStream.

If the status of a Firehose stream is CREATING_FAILED, this status doesn't change, and you can't invoke CreateDeliveryStream again on it. However, you can invoke the DeleteDeliveryStream operation to delete it.

A Firehose stream can be configured to receive records directly from providers using PutRecord or PutRecordBatch, or it can be configured to use an existing Kinesis stream as its source. To specify a Kinesis data stream as input, set the DeliveryStreamType parameter to KinesisStreamAsSource, and provide the Kinesis stream Amazon Resource Name (ARN) and role ARN in the KinesisStreamSourceConfiguration parameter.

To create a Firehose stream with server-side encryption (SSE) enabled, include DeliveryStreamEncryptionConfigurationInput in your request. This is optional. You can also invoke StartDeliveryStreamEncryption to turn on SSE for an existing Firehose stream that doesn't have SSE enabled.

A Firehose stream is configured with a single destination, such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Redshift, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, Splunk, and any custom HTTP endpoint or HTTP endpoints owned by or supported by third-party service providers, including Datadog, Dynatrace, LogicMonitor, MongoDB, New Relic, and Sumo Logic. You must specify only one of the following destination configuration parameters: ExtendedS3DestinationConfiguration, S3DestinationConfiguration, ElasticsearchDestinationConfiguration, RedshiftDestinationConfiguration, or SplunkDestinationConfiguration.

When you specify S3DestinationConfiguration, you can also provide the following optional values: BufferingHints, EncryptionConfiguration, and CompressionFormat. By default, if no BufferingHints value is provided, Firehose buffers data up to 5 MB or for 5 minutes, whichever condition is satisfied first. BufferingHints is a hint, so there are some cases where the service cannot adhere to these conditions strictly. For example, record boundaries might be such that the size is a little over or under the configured buffering size. By default, no encryption is performed. We strongly recommend that you enable encryption to ensure secure data storage in Amazon S3.

A few notes about Amazon Redshift as a destination:

  • An Amazon Redshift destination requires an S3 bucket as intermediate location. Firehose first delivers data to Amazon S3 and then uses COPY syntax to load data into an Amazon Redshift table. This is specified in the RedshiftDestinationConfiguration.S3Configuration parameter.

  • The compression formats SNAPPY or ZIP cannot be specified in RedshiftDestinationConfiguration.S3Configuration because the Amazon Redshift COPY operation that reads from the S3 bucket doesn't support these compression formats.

  • We strongly recommend that you use the user name and password you provide exclusively with Firehose, and that the permissions for the account are restricted for Amazon Redshift INSERT permissions.

Firehose assumes the IAM role that is configured as part of the destination. The role should allow the Firehose principal to assume the role, and the role should have permissions that allow the service to deliver the data. For more information, see Grant Firehose Access to an Amazon S3 Destination in the Amazon Firehose Developer Guide.

Method Signature

IMPORTING

Required arguments:

IV_DELIVERYSTREAMNAME TYPE /AWS1/FRHDELIVERYSTREAMNAME /AWS1/FRHDELIVERYSTREAMNAME

The name of the Firehose stream. This name must be unique per Amazon Web Services account in the same Amazon Web Services Region. If the Firehose streams are in different accounts or different Regions, you can have multiple Firehose streams with the same name.

Optional arguments:

IV_DELIVERYSTREAMTYPE TYPE /AWS1/FRHDELIVERYSTREAMTYPE /AWS1/FRHDELIVERYSTREAMTYPE

The Firehose stream type. This parameter can be one of the following values:

  • DirectPut: Provider applications access the Firehose stream directly.

  • KinesisStreamAsSource: The Firehose stream uses a Kinesis data stream as a source.

IO_KINESISSTREAMSOURCECONF TYPE REF TO /AWS1/CL_FRHKINESISSTRMSRCCONF /AWS1/CL_FRHKINESISSTRMSRCCONF

When a Kinesis data stream is used as the source for the Firehose stream, a KinesisStreamSourceConfiguration containing the Kinesis data stream Amazon Resource Name (ARN) and the role ARN for the source stream.

IO_DELIVERYSTRMENCCONFINPUT TYPE REF TO /AWS1/CL_FRHDELIVERYSTRMENCC00 /AWS1/CL_FRHDELIVERYSTRMENCC00

Used to specify the type and Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the KMS key needed for Server-Side Encryption (SSE).

IO_S3DESTINATIONCONF TYPE REF TO /AWS1/CL_FRHS3DESTINATIONCONF /AWS1/CL_FRHS3DESTINATIONCONF

[Deprecated] The destination in Amazon S3. You can specify only one destination.

IO_EXTENDEDS3DESTINATIONCONF TYPE REF TO /AWS1/CL_FRHEXTENDEDS3DSTCONF /AWS1/CL_FRHEXTENDEDS3DSTCONF

The destination in Amazon S3. You can specify only one destination.

IO_REDSHIFTDESTINATIONCONF TYPE REF TO /AWS1/CL_FRHREDSHIFTDSTCONF /AWS1/CL_FRHREDSHIFTDSTCONF

The destination in Amazon Redshift. You can specify only one destination.

IO_ELASTICSEARCHDSTCONF TYPE REF TO /AWS1/CL_FRHELASTICSRCHDSTCONF /AWS1/CL_FRHELASTICSRCHDSTCONF

The destination in Amazon ES. You can specify only one destination.

IO_AMAZONOPENSRCHSVCDSTCONF TYPE REF TO /AWS1/CL_FRHAMAZONOPENSRCHSV00 /AWS1/CL_FRHAMAZONOPENSRCHSV00

The destination in Amazon OpenSearch Service. You can specify only one destination.

IO_SPLUNKDESTINATIONCONF TYPE REF TO /AWS1/CL_FRHSPLUNKDSTCONF /AWS1/CL_FRHSPLUNKDSTCONF

The destination in Splunk. You can specify only one destination.

IO_HTTPENDPOINTDSTCONF TYPE REF TO /AWS1/CL_FRHHTTPENDPTDSTCONF /AWS1/CL_FRHHTTPENDPTDSTCONF

Enables configuring Kinesis Firehose to deliver data to any HTTP endpoint destination. You can specify only one destination.

IT_TAGS TYPE /AWS1/CL_FRHTAG=>TT_TAGDELIVERYSTRMINPUTTAGLIST TT_TAGDELIVERYSTRMINPUTTAGLIST

A set of tags to assign to the Firehose stream. A tag is a key-value pair that you can define and assign to Amazon Web Services resources. Tags are metadata. For example, you can add friendly names and descriptions or other types of information that can help you distinguish the Firehose stream. For more information about tags, see Using Cost Allocation Tags in the Amazon Web Services Billing and Cost Management User Guide.

You can specify up to 50 tags when creating a Firehose stream.

If you specify tags in the CreateDeliveryStream action, Amazon Data Firehose performs an additional authorization on the firehose:TagDeliveryStream action to verify if users have permissions to create tags. If you do not provide this permission, requests to create new Firehose Firehose streams with IAM resource tags will fail with an AccessDeniedException such as following.

AccessDeniedException

User: arn:aws:sts::x:assumed-role/x/x is not authorized to perform: firehose:TagDeliveryStream on resource: arn:aws:firehose:us-east-1:x:deliverystream/x with an explicit deny in an identity-based policy.

For an example IAM policy, see Tag example.

IO_AMAZONOPENSRCHSERVERLES00 TYPE REF TO /AWS1/CL_FRHAMAZONOPENSRCHSE00 /AWS1/CL_FRHAMAZONOPENSRCHSE00

The destination in the Serverless offering for Amazon OpenSearch Service. You can specify only one destination.

IO_MSKSOURCECONFIGURATION TYPE REF TO /AWS1/CL_FRHMSKSOURCECONF /AWS1/CL_FRHMSKSOURCECONF

MSKSourceConfiguration

IO_SNOWFLAKEDESTINATIONCONF TYPE REF TO /AWS1/CL_FRHSNOWFLAKEDSTCONF /AWS1/CL_FRHSNOWFLAKEDSTCONF

Configure Snowflake destination

IO_ICEBERGDESTINATIONCONF TYPE REF TO /AWS1/CL_FRHICEBERGDSTCONF /AWS1/CL_FRHICEBERGDSTCONF

Configure Apache Iceberg Tables destination.

IO_DATABASESOURCECONF TYPE REF TO /AWS1/CL_FRHDATABASESOURCECONF /AWS1/CL_FRHDATABASESOURCECONF

Amazon Data Firehose is in preview release and is subject to change.

RETURNING

OO_OUTPUT TYPE REF TO /AWS1/CL_FRHCREDELIVERYSTRMOUT /AWS1/CL_FRHCREDELIVERYSTRMOUT