Develop custom consumers with shared throughput
If you don't need dedicated throughput when receiving data from Kinesis Data Streams, and if you don't need read propagation delays under 200 ms, you can build consumer applications as described in the following topics. You can use the Kinesis Client Library (KCL) or the AWS SDK for Java.
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For information about building consumers that can receive records from Kinesis data streams with dedicated throughput, see Develop custom consumers with dedicated throughput (enhanced fan-out).