You are working on a system that will use AWS Kinesis, and it is getting data from various log sources. You are looking at creating an initial number of shards for the Kinesis stream. Which of the following can be used to calculate the initial number of shards for the Kinesis stream? Choose 2 answers from the options given below.

Answer options:

A.Incoming write bandwidth
B.Outgoing write bandwidth
C.Incoming read bandwidth
D.Outgoing read bandwidth

Answer – A and D
This is given in the AWS Documentation.
You can calculate the initial number of shards (
number_of_shards
) that your stream needs by using the input values in the following formula:
number_of_shards = max(incoming_write_bandwidth_in_KiB/1024, outgoing_read_bandwidth_in_KiB/2048)
For more information on Amazon Kinesis streams, please refer to the below URL-
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/streams/latest/dev/amazon-kinesis-streams.html