The following table describes the important changes to the Amazon Kinesis Data Streams documentation.
| Change | Description | Date Changed |
|---|---|---|
| End-of-support dates and version lifecycle policy for KPL and KCL. | Added information about end-of-support dates and version lifecycle policy for Amazon Kinesis Producer Library (KPL) and Amazon Kinesis Client Library (KCL). For more information, see KPL version lifecycle policy and KCL version lifecycle policy. | March 13, 2025 |
| Added support for sharing data streams across acounts. | Added Share your data stream with another account. | November 22, 2023 |
| Added support for the on-demand and provisioned data stream capacity modes. | Added Choose the data stream capacity mode. | November 29, 2021 |
| New content for server-side encryption. | Added Data protection in Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. | July 7, 2017 |
| New content for enhanced CloudWatch metrics. | Updated Monitor Kinesis Data Streams. | April 19, 2016 |
| New content for enhanced Kinesis agent. | Updated Write to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams using Kinesis Agent. | April 11, 2016 |
| New content for using Kinesis agents. | Added Write to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams using Kinesis Agent. | October 2, 2015 |
| Update KPL content for release 0.10.0. | Added Develop producers using the Amazon Kinesis Producer Library (KPL). | July 15, 2015 |
| Update KCL metrics topic for configurable metrics. | Added Monitor the Kinesis Client Library with Amazon CloudWatch. | July 9, 2015 |
| Re-organized content. | Significantly re-organized content topics for more concise tree view and more logical grouping. | July 01, 2015 |
| New KPL developer's guide topic. | Added Develop producers using the Amazon Kinesis Producer Library (KPL). | June 02, 2015 |
| New KCL metrics topic. | Added Monitor the Kinesis Client Library with Amazon CloudWatch. | May 19, 2015 |
| Support for KCL .NET | Added Develop a Kinesis Client Library consumer in .NET. | May 1, 2015 |
| Support for KCL Node.js | Added Develop a Kinesis Client Library consumer in Node.js. | March 26, 2015 |
| Support for KCL Ruby | Added links to KCL Ruby library. | January 12, 2015 |
| New API PutRecords | Added information about new PutRecords API to Add multiple records with PutRecords. | December 15, 2014 |
| Support for tagging | Added Tag your streams in Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. | September 11, 2014 |
| New CloudWatch metric | Added the metric GetRecords.IteratorAgeMilliseconds to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams dimensions and metrics. |
September 3, 2014 |
| New monitoring chapter | Added Monitor Kinesis Data Streams and Monitor the Amazon Kinesis Data Streams service with Amazon CloudWatch. | July 30, 2014 |
| Default shard limit | Updated the Quotas and limits: the default shard limit has been raised from 5 to 10. | February 25, 2014 |
| Default shard limit | Updated the Quotas and limits: the default shard limit has been raised from 2 to 5. | January 28, 2014 |
| API version updates | Updates for version 2013-12-02 of the Kinesis Data Streams API. | December 12, 2013 |
| Initial release | Initial release of the Amazon Kinesis Developer Guide. | November 14, 2013 |
