An application uses Amazon Kinesis Data Streams to ingest clickstream data. The stream currently has 10 shards. During a marketing campaign, the data volume triples, and the consumer applications start falling behind. What is the MOST efficient way to resolve this?

Answer options:

Manually split the shards to 30.

Update the stream to use On-Demand capacity mode.

Increase the retention period of the stream.

Switch to Amazon SQS.

How to approach this question

Identify the automated scaling feature for Kinesis.

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B.Update the stream to use On-Demand capacity mode.✓ Correct

Update the stream to use On-Demand capacity mode.

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams On-Demand mode automatically manages the shards to provide the necessary throughput, making it ideal for workloads with unpredictable spikes.

Common mistakes

Choosing manual resharding, which is the legacy approach.

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