Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Amazon Data Firehose
Legacy names Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, Amazon Kinesis Firehose
Fully managed streaming ETL service that acquires, transforms, and delivers real-time streaming data to data lakes, data warehouses, and analytics services.
Naming timeline
- Amazon Kinesis Firehose
Launched at AWS re:Invent 2015 for loading streaming data into Amazon S3 and Amazon Redshift.
- Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
Added 'Data' to the product name alongside Amazon Kinesis Data Streams and Amazon Kinesis Video Streams.
- Amazon Data FirehoseCurrent name
Rebranded to Amazon Data Firehose in the AWS Management Console and documentation while preserving firehose:* technical primitives.
What is Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose called now?
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is now called Amazon Data Firehose, with the latest change on 9 February 2024 (Product Rebrand). Earlier names covered by this entry also include Amazon Kinesis Firehose. Fully managed streaming ETL service that acquires, transforms, and delivers real-time streaming data to data lakes, data warehouses, and analytics services. Only the customer-facing name changed; the underlying technical identifiers remain backward compatible.
Also known as
- Firehose
- Kinesis Firehose
Technical identifiers
Technical identifiers unchanged. Only the customer-facing product name changed; the APIs, CLI commands, IAM roles and Terraform resources below keep their legacy identifiers for backward compatibility.
| AWS Service APIs / SDKs | firehose |
|---|---|
| AWS CLI Commands | aws firehose |
| IAM Actions & Policies | firehose:* |
| Terraform Resources (aws_*) | aws_kinesis_firehose_delivery_stream |
The firehose API, aws firehose CLI, firehose:* IAM actions, and aws_kinesis_firehose_delivery_stream Terraform resource remain active without change.
Notes & disambiguation
- On February 9, 2024, AWS dropped the 'Kinesis' prefix to rebrand Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose as Amazon Data Firehose, reflecting its broader role ingesting from Amazon MSK, Direct PUT, and 20+ AWS sources into Amazon S3, Apache Iceberg Tables, Amazon Redshift, Amazon OpenSearch Service, and Snowflake.
- All underlying technical identifiers—including the firehose API, aws firehose CLI commands, firehose:* IAM actions, and the aws_kinesis_firehose_delivery_stream Terraform resource—remain unchanged.
- Amazon Kinesis Data Streams and Amazon Kinesis Video Streams retain the Kinesis brand as separate streaming services.
Sources & official documentation
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