Effective Amazon Machine Learning

Setting up Kinesis Firehose

We will focus on the Kinesis Firehose service, which offers two important features: data received can be fed to an AWS Lambda function for extra processing, and the resulting data can be stored on S3 or on a Redshift database.

We will start by setting up a Kinesis Firehose delivery stream that stores data on S3 without any Lambda functionality:

1. Go to the Kinesis Firehose dashboard at https://console.aws.amazon.com/firehose/ and click on Create Delivery Stream.
2. Fill in the following fields:
   • Destination: Amazon S3
   • Delivery stream name: veggieTweets (or choose your own name)
   • S3 bucket: aml.packt
   • S3 prefix: veggies
3. Click on Next:

Note that the S3 prefix field corresponds to a folder in your S3 bucket. You should ...