# Beam Kinesis Produce

## <img src="/files/KrJWsogL6YhlfIrW2hRE" alt="" data-size="line"> Beam Kinesis Produce

### Description <a href="#description" id="description"></a>

The Beam [Kinesis](https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/) Produce transform sends data (messages) to an Amazon Kinesis stream using a Beam pipeline execution engine.

| Hop Engine | X            |
| ---------- | ------------ |
| Spark      | <sup>✓</sup> |
| Flink      | <sup>✓</sup> |
| Dataflow   | <sup>✓</sup> |

### Limitations

The main limitation of the Kinesis produce transform is that it currently only supports sending String data. Please create a request in GitHub if you want to see support for Avro messages and other formats.

### Options

| Option                             | Description                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| ---------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Transform name                     | Name of the transform, this name has to be unique in a single pipeline.                                                                                                                           |
| AWS access key                     | The Amazon Web Services access key to authenticate with.                                                                                                                                          |
| AWS secret key                     | The Amazon Web Services secret key to authenticate with.                                                                                                                                          |
| Stream name                        | The name of the Kinesis stream to write to.                                                                                                                                                       |
| The name of the data field to send | This is the name of the field that contains the actual data (message)                                                                                                                             |
| The type of data to send           | Only String data (messages) are supported for now.                                                                                                                                                |
| Partition key                      | The partition key to use                                                                                                                                                                          |
| Configuration options              | A list of configuration options. See [here](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-producer/blob/master/java/amazon-kinesis-producer-sample/default_config.properties) for a list of examples. |


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