# Document history
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The following table describes the important changes to the Amazon Kinesis Data Streams documentation.


| Change | Description | Date Changed | 
| --- | --- | --- | 
| Added support for resilience testing with AWS Fault Injection Service. | Added [Perform resilience testing with AWS Fault Injection Service](kinesis-fis.md). | October 15, 2025 | 
| Added support for large record sizes up to 10 MiB. | Added [Handle large records](large-records.md). | October 27, 2025 | 
| End-of-support dates and version lifecycle policy for KPL and KCL. | Added information about end-of-support dates and version lifecycle policy for Amazon Kinesis Producer Library (KPL) and Amazon Kinesis Client Library (KCL). For more information, see [KPL version lifecycle policy](kpl-version-lifecycle-policy.md) and [KCL version lifecycle policy](kcl-version-lifecycle-policy.md). | March 13, 2025 | 
| Added support for sharing data streams across acounts. | Added [Share your data stream with another account](controlling-access.md#sharing-data-streams). | November 22, 2023 | 
| Added support for the on-demand and provisioned data stream capacity modes. | Added [Choose the right mode to stream in](how-do-i-size-a-stream.md). | November 29, 2021 | 
| New content for server-side encryption. | Added [Data protection in Amazon Kinesis Data Streams](server-side-encryption.md). | July 7, 2017 | 
| New content for enhanced CloudWatch metrics. | Updated [Monitor Kinesis Data Streams](monitoring.md). | April 19, 2016 | 
| New content for enhanced Kinesis agent. | Updated [Write to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams using Kinesis Agent](writing-with-agents.md). | April 11, 2016 | 
| New content for using Kinesis agents. | Added [Write to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams using Kinesis Agent](writing-with-agents.md). | October 2, 2015 | 
| Update KPL content for release 0.10.0. | Added [Develop producers using the Amazon Kinesis Producer Library (KPL)](developing-producers-with-kpl.md). | July 15, 2015 | 
| Update KCL metrics topic for configurable metrics. | Added [Monitor the Kinesis Client Library with Amazon CloudWatch](monitoring-with-kcl.md). | July 9, 2015 | 
| Re-organized content. | Significantly re-organized content topics for more concise tree view and more logical grouping. | July 01, 2015 | 
| New KPL developer's guide topic. | Added [Develop producers using the Amazon Kinesis Producer Library (KPL)](developing-producers-with-kpl.md). | June 02, 2015 | 
| New KCL metrics topic. | Added [Monitor the Kinesis Client Library with Amazon CloudWatch](monitoring-with-kcl.md). | May 19, 2015 | 
| Support for KCL .NET | Added [Develop a Kinesis Client Library consumer in .NET](kinesis-record-processor-implementation-app-dotnet.md). | May 1, 2015 | 
| Support for KCL Node.js | Added [Develop a Kinesis Client Library consumer in Node.js](kinesis-record-processor-implementation-app-nodejs.md). | March 26, 2015 | 
| Support for KCL Ruby | Added links to KCL Ruby library. | January 12, 2015 | 
| New API PutRecords | Added information about new PutRecords API to [Add multiple records with PutRecords](developing-producers-with-sdk.md#kinesis-using-sdk-java-putrecords). | December 15, 2014 | 
| Support for tagging | Added [Tag your Amazon Kinesis Data Streams resources](tagging.md). | September 11, 2014 | 
| New CloudWatch metric | Added the metric GetRecords.IteratorAgeMilliseconds to [Amazon Kinesis Data Streams dimensions and metrics](monitoring-with-cloudwatch.md#kinesis-metrics). | September 3, 2014 | 
| New monitoring chapter | Added [Monitor Kinesis Data Streams](monitoring.md) and [Monitor the Amazon Kinesis Data Streams service with Amazon CloudWatch](monitoring-with-cloudwatch.md). | July 30, 2014 | 
| Default shard limit | Updated the [Quotas and limits](service-sizes-and-limits.md): the default shard limit has been raised from 5 to 10. | February 25, 2014 | 
| Default shard limit | Updated the [Quotas and limits](service-sizes-and-limits.md): the default shard limit has been raised from 2 to 5. | January 28, 2014 | 
| API version updates | Updates for version 2013-12-02 of the Kinesis Data Streams API. | December 12, 2013 | 
| Initial release | Initial release of the Amazon Kinesis Developer Guide. | November 14, 2013 |