Can I select the AWS region used by the Amazon Kinesis Modular Input?

[wvdsluis]

Hello,

I found that the Amazon Kinesis Modular input uses in part the default AWS region as set in the aws-java-sdk-1.7.13.jar
To be exact for the DynamoDB table used by the Kinesis App, think needed by the KCL.

It defaults to us-east-1, but for my requirements, I need it to be the EU. Is there anyway to configure the Kinesis app to use resources in a particular AWS region? The Kinesis endpoint I can configure so that is fine.

Many thanks!

[Damien_Dallimor]

Kinesis Endpoint field in the UI setup or kinesis_endpoint field if editing inputs.conf directly.

[wvdsluis]

Hi Damien,

Thanks for your prompt response. I am aware of the Kinesis endpoint configuration - this works fine. Using https://kinesis.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com. Don't think I can specify just the AWS region there fe. eu-west-1?

I'm looking to change the region that the Kinesis app uses - at the moment the Kinesis input will create DynamoDB tables in us-east-1. Need this to be in EU.

Hope this clarifies my question.

Found some information around region selection here: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSdkDocsJava/latest/DeveloperGuide/java-dg-region-selection.html
But for what I can see the region setting is arranged in the code. Don't see a way I can influence this in a config file or so...

Many thanks.

[Damien_Dallimor]

Currently , you'd need to fork the code and create your own custom build to acheive this : https://github.com/damiendallimore/SplunkModularInputsJavaFramework/tree/master/kinesis

[wvdsluis]

Hi Damien,

OK understand. Just asking, any chance you can make this part of a future release of the input?

Many thanks!

[Damien_Dallimor]

I'll certainly look at it , the community are always the best source of requirements 🙂