How to properly set up Kinesis Data

Question

I’m working on setting up a website with Amazon Cloud Front..  I noticed that they have a area that allows you to set up Real Time Logs… Upon going in to set up wanted I wanted I noticed it wouldn’t save because it was asking me for Amazon Kinesis Data stream. I was wondering if there was a charge to use the Amazon Kinesis Data stream sense I’m trying to use the Amazon Cloud Front for free sense I don’t believe I will go over the GB. Can some please let me how to create this correctly when I went to Kinesis data stream its giving me this error message at time: Error loading data streams
This operation cannot be completed at this time due to a network failure. For more information and in order to mitigate the issue

Also Not sure if there was a charge to set this up or is this free. Any information would be much useful

Answer

There is an option to stream real-time CloudFront logs to a Kinesis data stream. From there you would be having a consumer application/service that is reading from the Kinesis data stream and analyzing the logs. The details can be found in this [document](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/real-time-logs.html).

In order to do so, you have to create a Kinesis data stream first. Upon which you can use in the CloudFront log streaming configuration.

Kinesis data streams currently can be having one of two capacity modes: Ondemand, or Provisioned. Kinesis data stream pricing depends on whether the stream is On-demand, or a provisioned stream. The details of the pricing for both modes can be found in this [page](https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/data-streams/pricing/).

For details about AWS Free Tier services, you may check this [page](https://aws.amazon.com/free/?all-free-tier.sort-by=item.additionalFields.SortRank&all-free-tier.sort-order=asc&awsf.Free%20Tier%20Types=*all&awsf.Free%20Tier%20Categories=*all). I have searched for Kinesis there and it returned no result. Which indicates that Kinesis is not one of the services included in the Free tier products.

How to properly set up Kinesis Data

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