AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty 2021 – Hands-On - (Exercise) Kinesis Firehose, Part 3

The video tutorial guides users through setting up an AWS Kinesis Firehose endpoint, managing permissions, and attaching an IAM role to an EC2 instance. It also covers configuring data flows and starting the Kinesis agent to monitor and transfer log data to Amazon S3. The tutorial emphasizes security best practices and provides step-by-step instructions for each process.

What is the first step to set up the endpoint for Firehose?

Why is it necessary to specify the region for the Firehose endpoint?

What are the potential security risks of including access keys in the configuration file?

Describe the process of attaching an IAM role to an EC2 instance.

What changes need to be made to the configuration file for Kinesis Firehose?

How can you verify that the Kinesis agent is processing records correctly?

What happens to the data sent to S3 by Kinesis Firehose?