Amazon Kinesis Data Streams launches On-demand Advantage mode

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams On-demand Advantage

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams has launched On-demand Advantage, allowing customers to warm on-demand streams to handle instant throughput increases up to 10GB or 10 million events per second. This eliminates the need to over-provision or build custom scaling solutions.

New Features

• Warm on-demand streams to handle instant throughput increases up to 10GB or 10 million events per second.
• Simplifies pricing structure by removing the fixed, per-stream charge.
• Data usage pricing is 60% lower compared to On-demand Standard.
• Data ingest at $0.032/GB and data retrieval at $0.016/GB in the US East (N. Virginia) region.
• Enhanced fan-out data retrieval pricing is the same as shared-throughput retrievals.
• Extended retention pricing is 77% lower at $0.023/GB-month.

What to do

• Check the Kinesis console and pricing page to see if On-demand Advantage is suitable for your account.
• Enable On-demand Advantage mode in the Kinesis console.
• Review the launch blog and Kinesis Data Streams User Guide for more information.

Source: AWS release notes

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