Record

A data record in an Amazon Kinesis data stream.

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Properties

Name	Type	Description
SequenceNumber	string	The unique identifier of the record in the shard.
ApproximateArrivalTimestamp	string	The approximate time the record was inserted.
Data	string	The data blob (base64-encoded).
PartitionKey	string	Identifies which shard the data record belongs to.

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JSON Schema

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-kinesis/refs/heads/main/json-schema/amazon-kinesis-record-schema.json",
  "title": "Record",
  "description": "A data record in an Amazon Kinesis data stream.",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "SequenceNumber": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The unique identifier of the record in the shard.",
      "example": "seq-000000000000"
    },
    "ApproximateArrivalTimestamp": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The approximate time the record was inserted.",
      "format": "date-time"
    },
    "Data": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The data blob (base64-encoded)."
    },
    "PartitionKey": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Identifies which shard the data record belongs to.",
      "example": "partition-1"
    }
  }
}