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MSKSourceDescription - Amazon Data Firehose

MSKSourceDescription

Details about the Amazon MSK cluster used as the source for a Firehose stream.

Contents

AuthenticationConfiguration

The authentication configuration of the Amazon MSK cluster.

Type: AuthenticationConfiguration object

Required: No

DeliveryStartTimestamp

Firehose starts retrieving records from the topic within the Amazon MSK cluster starting with this timestamp.

Type: Timestamp

Required: No

MSKClusterARN

The ARN of the Amazon MSK cluster.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 512.

Pattern: arn:.*

Required: No

ReadFromTimestamp

The start date and time in UTC for the offset position within your MSK topic from where Firehose begins to read. By default, this is set to timestamp when Firehose becomes Active.

If you want to create a Firehose stream with Earliest start position from SDK or CLI, you need to set the ReadFromTimestampUTC parameter to Epoch (1970-01-01T00:00:00Z).

Type: Timestamp

Required: No

TopicName

The topic name within the Amazon MSK cluster.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.

Pattern: [a-zA-Z0-9\\._\\-]+

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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