How to send data to AWS Kinesis
In this tutorial you will learn how to send data to AWS Kinesis
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In this tutorial you will learn how to send data to AWS Kinesis
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Benefits of the AWS Kinesis output connector:
Directly stream device data from akenza to AWS Kinesis and subsequently process it in AWS Kinesis
Easily process low-power device data e.g. LoRaWAN device data in a AWS Kinesis
In this tutorial, you will learn, how to send data to AWS Kinesis. The following steps are explained in more detail:
First, you will need to set up AWS kinesis in order to successfully process data from akenza in AWS services.
Sign in to the Amazon portal
Create a new AWS Kinesis stream resource, by searching for Kinesis and creating a data stream
copy the stream ARN for later use
Create a new API user by searching for IAM
create a new policy with access to the Kinesis service
Expand the tab Write and select PutRecords action and the newly created kinesis stream as resources
create a new user which uses access key as the credentials type and the previously created policy
In akenza, create a new Data Flow with AWS Kinesis as Output Connector. Define a Connector Name, enter the IAM user id and key as well as the Kinesis data stream ARN. Save the connector and Data Flow accordingly.
Create a new device using the Data Flow and start sending data.
Optionally: The custom payload can be selected for making use of templated payload in the desired structure. If the custom payload is not selected, the whole data sample will be forwarded.
In order to monitor uplinks that are sent to AWS Kinesis, you can use AWS cli. To check if the uplinks arrived execute as a first step the following command and copy the return value. This value is the shard iterator used in the following commands.
Send data to your device and execute the following command accordingly.
You should now see your base64 encoded records as well as the next shard iterator. If there is no data repeat the previous command with the next shard iterator.
Once a device is connected to the kinesis, device data can be further used on various AWS services:
Possible services are:
Real-time data stream processing
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