Amazon Kinesis announces IAM role support in Kinesis Agent
Amazon Kinesis Agent is a pre-built Java application that offers an easy way to collect and ingest data into Amazon Kinesis services. The agent monitors log files you specify and continuously sends new data to Amazon Kinesis Streams and Amazon Kinesis Firehose.
Amazon Kinesis Agent is a pre-built Java application that offers an easy way to collect and ingest data into Amazon Kinesis services. The agent monitors log files you specify and continuously sends new data to Amazon Kinesis Streams and Amazon Kinesis Firehose.
Amazon Kinesis Agent now supports using an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role for authentication. You can set an IAM role in the agent configuration and the agent will assume the role to get permission to put data into your Kinesis streams and Firehose delivery streams.
For more information, see Writing to Amazon Kinesis Firehose with Amazon Kinesis Agent in the Amazon Kinesis Firehose Developer Guide and Writing to Amazon Kinesis Streams with Amazon Kinesis Agent in the Amazon Kinesis Streams Developer Guide.