Kinesis Shard Separation Using AWS IoT Topic Payloads

This note describes how to separate Kinesis shards by IoT topic payloads.

Takahiro Iwasa

2020-04-16

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This note describes how to separate Kinesis shards by IoT topic payloads.

Prerequisites

Ensure you have the following installed on your machine:

AWS SAM CLI
Python 3.x

Building

In the AWS IoT topic rule, PartitionKey: ${customer_id} is specified (line 37).

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AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
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Transform: AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31
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Resources:
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  Lambda:
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    Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
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    Properties:
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      CodeUri: ./src/
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      Events:
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        Kinesis:
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          Type: Kinesis
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          Properties:
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            BatchSize: 100
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            BisectBatchOnFunctionError: true
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            Enabled: true
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            StartingPosition: LATEST
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            Stream: !GetAtt Kinesis.Arn
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      FunctionName: aws_iot_kinesis_partition_lambda
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      Handler: lambda_function.lambda_handler
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      Role: !GetAtt IamRole.Arn
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      Runtime: python3.8
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  Kinesis:
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    Type: AWS::Kinesis::Stream
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    Properties:
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      Name: aws_iot_kinesis_partition_stream
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      RetentionPeriodHours: 24
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      ShardCount: 1
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  TopicRule:
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    Type: AWS::IoT::TopicRule
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    Properties:
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      RuleName: aws_iot_kinesis_partition_topic_rule
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      TopicRulePayload:
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        Actions:
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          - Kinesis:
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              PartitionKey: ${customer_id}
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              RoleArn: !GetAtt IamRole.Arn
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              StreamName: aws_iot_kinesis_partition_stream
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        AwsIotSqlVersion: 2016-03-23
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        RuleDisabled: false
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        Sql: SELECT * FROM 'aws-iot-kinesis-partition-topic'
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  IamRole:
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    Type: AWS::IAM::Role
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    Properties:
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      AssumeRolePolicyDocument:
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        Version: '2012-10-17'
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        Statement:
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          - Effect: Allow
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            Principal:
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              Service: lambda.amazonaws.com
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            Action: sts:AssumeRole
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          - Effect: Allow
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            Principal:
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              Service: iot.amazonaws.com
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            Action: sts:AssumeRole
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      ManagedPolicyArns:
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        - arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole
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      Policies:
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        - PolicyDocument:
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            Version: '2012-10-17'
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            Statement:
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              - Effect: Allow
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                Action:
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                  - kinesis:GetShardIterator
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                  - kinesis:GetRecords
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                  - kinesis:DescribeStream
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                  - kinesis:PutRecord
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                Resource:
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                  - !GetAtt Kinesis.Arn
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          PolicyName: policy
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  LogGroup:
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    Type: AWS::Logs::LogGroup
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    Properties:
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      LogGroupName: /aws/lambda/aws_iot_kinesis_partition_lambda
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      RetentionInDays: 1

Implement the following Python script to process data streamed by Kinesis:

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import json
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def lambda_handler(event, context):
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    for record in event['Records']:
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        print(json.dumps(record['kinesis']))

Build and deploy the stack:

sam build
sam deploy \
  --stack-name aws-iot-kinesis-partition-lambda \
  --capabilities CAPABILITY_NAMED_IAM

Testing

Send test payloads to the AWS IoT topic using the following command:

aws iot-data publish \
  --topic aws-iot-kinesis-partition-topic \
  --payload '{"customer_id": 1, "message": "Hello from AWS IoT"}' \
  --cli-binary-format raw-in-base64-out

Check the Lambda logs to confirm that the partitionKey matches the customer_id in your payload.

Cleaning Up

Clean up all the AWS resources provisioned during this example with the following command:

sam delete --stack-name aws-iot-kinesis-partition-lambda

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Takahiro Iwasa

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Building

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Cleaning Up

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