Create a connection for the DSP Amazon Kinesis Connector with static credentials

Use the AWS Kinesis Connector using static credentials to collect data from any Kinesis stream that the tenant has credentials for.

To use a connector, you must create a connection. You can reuse the Kinesis connection for both the Read from Amazon Kinesis Stream source function and the Write to Kinesis sink function.

1. From the Data Management page, click on the Connections tab.
2. Click Create New Connection.
3. Choose the Amazon Kinesis Connector using static credentials connector.
4. Click Next.
5. Complete the following fields:

   Field	Description
   Name	A unique name for your connection.
   Description	A description of your connection
   AWS access key ID	The AWS access key ID with permissions to read and write to the Kinesis stream. See the Controlling Access to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Resources Using IAM for more information on AWS IAM policies.
   AWS region	The AWS region of the Kinesis stream.
   AWS secret access key	The AWS secret access key with permissions to read and write to the Kinesis stream.

   Any credentials that you upload are transmitted securely by HTTPS, encrypted, and securely stored in a secrets manager.

   If your data fails to get into DSP, check the fields again to make sure you have the correct name, AWS access key ID, AWS region, and AWS secret access key for your Kinesis stream. DSP doesn't run a check to see if you enter the valid credentials.

6. Click Save.

   If you are editing a connection that's being used by an active pipeline, you must reactivate that pipeline after making your changes.

You can now use your connection in a data pipeline.

See also

Data streams from the Amazon Kinesis Connector in a specific schema. For information on what this schema looks like or how to process Amazon Kinesis data in your data pipeline, see Read from Amazon Kinesis Stream in the DSP Function Reference manual and Deserialize and preview data from Amazon Kinesis in the User Manual.