Hello and welcome to the second part of Cloud Academy's course on Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. My name is Stephen Cole and I’ll be your instructor.  I’ve been working in the cloud for several years and currently hold many active AWS certifications. My contact information is shown on the screen.  Please feel free to reach out to me with any questions, comments, or concerns.  

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This course, in many ways, is a primer for getting started with Kinesis Data Streams.  However, if you've started using Kinesis Data Streams already, I have put some content inside these lectures that will either round out your understanding of the tools you're using or explain how Kinesis Data Streams works so that you can use it more effectively.

In this second part of the course, I'm going to cover Shard capacity, Kinesis Data Streams as a streaming storage layer, and the basics of securing data in a Kinesis Data Stream. Please note that, at the time this content was written, the course information was accurate.  AWS implements hundreds of updates every month as part of its ongoing drive to innovate and enhance its services.

As a result, minor discrepancies may appear in the course content over time.  Here at Cloud Academy, we strive to keep our courses up to date in order to provide the best training available. If you notice any information that is outdated, please contact us at support@cloudacademy.com. This will allow us to update the course during the next release cycle.  We would love to hear from you.  I would love to hear from you.  Tell me what you learned, what could use some attention, or what worked really well for you.  

That said, let's get started.