Amazon Kinesis

Read Throttling Under Multi-Consumer Load

Resource Contention

ReadProvisionedThroughputExceeded indicates GetRecords calls are throttled when multiple consumers exceed 5 reads/sec/shard or 2MB/sec/shard aggregate limit. Standard iterators share throughput, creating contention as consumer count increases.

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