Request Syntax Request Parameters Response Syntax Response Elements Errors See Also

After careful consideration, we have decided to discontinue Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for SQL applications in two steps:

1. From October 15, 2025, you will not be able to create new Kinesis Data Analytics for SQL applications.

2. We will delete your applications starting January 27, 2026. You will not be able to start or operate your Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for SQL applications. Support will no longer be available for Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for SQL from that time. For more information, see Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for SQL Applications discontinuation.

CreateApplication

Note

This documentation is for version 1 of the Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics API, which only supports SQL applications. Version 2 of the API supports SQL and Java applications. For more information about version 2, see Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics API V2 Documentation.

Creates an Amazon Kinesis Analytics application. You can configure each application with one streaming source as input, application code to process the input, and up to three destinations where you want Amazon Kinesis Analytics to write the output data from your application. For an overview, see How it Works.

In the input configuration, you map the streaming source to an in-application stream, which you can think of as a constantly updating table. In the mapping, you must provide a schema for the in-application stream and map each data column in the in-application stream to a data element in the streaming source.

Your application code is one or more SQL statements that read input data, transform it, and generate output. Your application code can create one or more SQL artifacts like SQL streams or pumps.

In the output configuration, you can configure the application to write data from in-application streams created in your applications to up to three destinations.

To read data from your source stream or write data to destination streams, Amazon Kinesis Analytics needs your permissions. You grant these permissions by creating IAM roles. This operation requires permissions to perform the kinesisanalytics:CreateApplication action.

For introductory exercises to create an Amazon Kinesis Analytics application, see Getting Started.

Request Syntax


{
   "ApplicationCode": "string",
   "ApplicationDescription": "string",
   "ApplicationName": "string",
   "CloudWatchLoggingOptions": [ 
      { 
         "LogStreamARN": "string",
         "RoleARN": "string"
      }
   ],
   "Inputs": [ 
      { 
         "InputParallelism": { 
            "Count": number
         },
         "InputProcessingConfiguration": { 
            "InputLambdaProcessor": { 
               "ResourceARN": "string",
               "RoleARN": "string"
            }
         },
         "InputSchema": { 
            "RecordColumns": [ 
               { 
                  "Mapping": "string",
                  "Name": "string",
                  "SqlType": "string"
               }
            ],
            "RecordEncoding": "string",
            "RecordFormat": { 
               "MappingParameters": { 
                  "CSVMappingParameters": { 
                     "RecordColumnDelimiter": "string",
                     "RecordRowDelimiter": "string"
                  },
                  "JSONMappingParameters": { 
                     "RecordRowPath": "string"
                  }
               },
               "RecordFormatType": "string"
            }
         },
         "KinesisFirehoseInput": { 
            "ResourceARN": "string",
            "RoleARN": "string"
         },
         "KinesisStreamsInput": { 
            "ResourceARN": "string",
            "RoleARN": "string"
         },
         "NamePrefix": "string"
      }
   ],
   "Outputs": [ 
      { 
         "DestinationSchema": { 
            "RecordFormatType": "string"
         },
         "KinesisFirehoseOutput": { 
            "ResourceARN": "string",
            "RoleARN": "string"
         },
         "KinesisStreamsOutput": { 
            "ResourceARN": "string",
            "RoleARN": "string"
         },
         "LambdaOutput": { 
            "ResourceARN": "string",
            "RoleARN": "string"
         },
         "Name": "string"
      }
   ],
   "Tags": [ 
      { 
         "Key": "string",
         "Value": "string"
      }
   ]
}

Request Parameters

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

ApplicationCode

One or more SQL statements that read input data, transform it, and generate output. For example, you can write a SQL statement that reads data from one in-application stream, generates a running average of the number of advertisement clicks by vendor, and insert resulting rows in another in-application stream using pumps. For more information about the typical pattern, see Application Code.

You can provide such series of SQL statements, where output of one statement can be used as the input for the next statement. You store intermediate results by creating in-application streams and pumps.

Note that the application code must create the streams with names specified in the Outputs. For example, if your Outputs defines output streams named ExampleOutputStream1 and ExampleOutputStream2, then your application code must create these streams.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 102400.

Required: No

ApplicationDescription

Summary description of the application.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 1024.

Required: No

ApplicationName

Name of your Amazon Kinesis Analytics application (for example, sample-app).

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

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

Required: Yes

CloudWatchLoggingOptions

Use this parameter to configure a CloudWatch log stream to monitor application configuration errors. For more information, see Working with Amazon CloudWatch Logs.

Type: Array of CloudWatchLoggingOption objects

Required: No

Inputs

Use this parameter to configure the application input.

You can configure your application to receive input from a single streaming source. In this configuration, you map this streaming source to an in-application stream that is created. Your application code can then query the in-application stream like a table (you can think of it as a constantly updating table).

For the streaming source, you provide its Amazon Resource Name (ARN) and format of data on the stream (for example, JSON, CSV, etc.). You also must provide an IAM role that Amazon Kinesis Analytics can assume to read this stream on your behalf.

To create the in-application stream, you need to specify a schema to transform your data into a schematized version used in SQL. In the schema, you provide the necessary mapping of the data elements in the streaming source to record columns in the in-app stream.

Type: Array of Input objects

Required: No

Outputs

You can configure application output to write data from any of the in-application streams to up to three destinations.

These destinations can be Amazon Kinesis streams, Amazon Kinesis Firehose delivery streams, AWS Lambda destinations, or any combination of the three.

In the configuration, you specify the in-application stream name, the destination stream or Lambda function Amazon Resource Name (ARN), and the format to use when writing data. You must also provide an IAM role that Amazon Kinesis Analytics can assume to write to the destination stream or Lambda function on your behalf.

In the output configuration, you also provide the output stream or Lambda function ARN. For stream destinations, you provide the format of data in the stream (for example, JSON, CSV). You also must provide an IAM role that Amazon Kinesis Analytics can assume to write to the stream or Lambda function on your behalf.

Type: Array of Output objects

Required: No

Tags

A list of one or more tags to assign to the application. A tag is a key-value pair that identifies an application. Note that the maximum number of application tags includes system tags. The maximum number of user-defined application tags is 50. For more information, see Using Tagging.

Type: Array of Tag objects

Array Members: Minimum number of 1 item. Maximum number of 200 items.

Required: No

Response Syntax


{
   "ApplicationSummary": { 
      "ApplicationARN": "string",
      "ApplicationName": "string",
      "ApplicationStatus": "string"
   }
}

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

ApplicationSummary

In response to your CreateApplication request, Amazon Kinesis Analytics returns a response with a summary of the application it created, including the application Amazon Resource Name (ARN), name, and status.

Type: ApplicationSummary object

Errors

CodeValidationException

User-provided application code (query) is invalid. This can be a simple syntax error.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ConcurrentModificationException

Exception thrown as a result of concurrent modification to an application. For example, two individuals attempting to edit the same application at the same time.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidArgumentException

Specified input parameter value is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

LimitExceededException

Exceeded the number of applications allowed.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceInUseException

Application is not available for this operation.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyTagsException

Application created with too many tags, or too many tags added to an application. Note that the maximum number of application tags includes system tags. The maximum number of user-defined application tags is 50.

HTTP Status Code: 400

UnsupportedOperationException

The request was rejected because a specified parameter is not supported or a specified resource is not valid for this operation.

HTTP Status Code: 400