Document History
The following table describes the important changes to the Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose documentation.
| Change | Description | Date Changed |
|---|---|---|
| Added a topic on custom prefixes. | Added a topic about the expressions that you can use when building a custom prefix for data that is delivered to Amazon S3. See Custom Prefixes for Amazon S3 Objects. | December 20, 2018 |
| Added New Kinesis Data Firehose Tutorial | Added a tutorial that demonstrates how to send Amazon VPC flow logs to Splunk through Kinesis Data Firehose. See Tutorial: Sending VPC Flow Logs to Splunk Using Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. | October 30, 2018 |
| Added Four New Kinesis Data Firehose Regions | Added Paris, Mumbai, Sao Paulo, and London. For more information, see Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Limits. | June 27, 2018 |
| Added Two New Kinesis Data Firehose Regions | Added Seoul and Montreal. For more information, see Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Limits. | June 13, 2018 |
| New Kinesis Streams as Source feature | Added Kinesis Streams as a potential source for records for a Firehose Delivery Stream. For more information, see Name and source. | August 18, 2017 |
| Update to console documentation | The delivery stream creation wizard was updated. For more information, see Creating an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Delivery Stream. | July 19, 2017 |
| New data transformation | You can configure Kinesis Data Firehose to transform your data before data delivery. For more information, see Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Data Transformation. | December 19, 2016 |
| New Amazon Redshift COPY retry | You can configure Kinesis Data Firehose to retry a COPY command to your Amazon Redshift cluster if it fails. For more information, see Creating an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Delivery Stream, Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Data Delivery, and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Limits. | May 18, 2016 |
| New Kinesis Data Firehose destination, Amazon Elasticsearch Service | You can create a delivery stream with Amazon Elasticsearch Service as the destination. For more information, see Creating an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Delivery Stream, Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Data Delivery, and Grant Kinesis Data Firehose Access to an Amazon ES Destination. | April 19, 2016 |
| New enhanced CloudWatch metrics and troubleshooting features | Updated Monitoring Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose and Troubleshooting Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. | April 19, 2016 |
| New enhanced Kinesis agent | Updated Writing to Kinesis Data Firehose Using Kinesis Agent. | April 11, 2016 |
| New Kinesis agents | Added Writing to Kinesis Data Firehose Using Kinesis Agent. | October 2, 2015 |
| Initial release | Initial release of the Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Developer Guide. | October 4, 2015 |
