#AWS #kinesis #DataStream 1. Launch EC2 with a programmatic access of the following policies - AmazonS3FullAccess, AmazonKinesisFullAccess, AdministratorAccess, AmazonEC2FullAccess 2. Download the access key and .pem file if you don't have. Once EC2 is up using sudo access - install Kinesis agent on the machine sudo service aws-kinesis-agent start sudo service aws-kinesis-agent restart update the file for the user credentials - /etc/sysconfig/aws-kinesis-agent 3. go to /etc/aws-kinesis/ # Set AWS credentials for accessing Amazon Kinesis Stream and Amazon Kinesis Firehose { " ": true, " ": " ", " ": " ", "awsAccessKeyId": "PLACE YOUR KEY", "awsSecretAccessKey": "PLACE YOUR KEY", "flows": [ { "filePattern": "YOUR DESTINATION", "kinesisStream": "kds-NAME GOES HERE", "partitionKeyOption": "RANDOM" } ] } Now follow the video. Some useful links for better understanding are - #download-install