Your team is developing an application that will be making use of Kinesis streams. A load test was conducted to get 15000 records in GetRecords requests. The requests failed with ProvisionedThroughputExceededException. Which of the following could be a reason for this?

Answer options:

A.AWS Kinesis only allows 1000 records to be read per second.
B.You can only have 100 shards with 10 records processed per shard.
C.The GetRecords requests hit the payload limit.
D.There is a limit on the number of streams.

Answer – C
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams has the following limits for GetRecords.
GetRecords can retrieve up to 10 MiB of data per call from a single shard and up to 10,000 records per call. Each call to GetRecords is counted as one read transaction.
For more information on service limits with Kinesis, please refer to the below URL
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/streams/latest/dev/service-sizes-and-limits.html