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Setting up an Amazon Kinesis Stream

In this section, we will implement a Kinesis Stream and familiarize ourselves with a few useful Kinesis CLI commands.

Log into the AWS Management Console and go to Amazon Kinesis Console. Click on the Get started button:

Click on the Create data stream button on the Get started with Amazon Kinesis screen:

Specify a name for the Kinesis stream as KinesisTestStream :

Specify the Number of shards as

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