The resources section of the serverless.yml file is used to create cloud resources that are used by services. These resources are defined using standard AWS CloudFormation resource types. In this recipe, we are creating an AWS Kinesis stream. We give the stream a name, define the retention period, and specify the number of shards. The Serverless Framework provides a robust mechanism for dynamically replacing variables.
Here, we use the ${opt:stage} option passed in on the command line and the ${self:service} name defined in the serverless.yml file to create a unique stream name. The standard retention period is 24 hours and the maximum is seven days. For our recipes, one shard will be more than sufficient. We will discuss ...
