FYI, if your setup relies on API Gateway, you probably could use VTL / Mapping Templates to directly send from API Gateway to Kinesis and skip the lambda altoge

FYI, if your setup relies on API Gateway, you probably could use VTL / Mapping Templates to directly send from API Gateway to Kinesis and skip the lambda altogether, like some do for dynamodb See https://hackernoon.com/serverless-and-lambdaless-scalable-crud-data-api-with-aws-api-gateway-and-dynamodb-626161008bb2 https://hackernoon.com/serverless-and-lambdaless-scalable-cr... And https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/using-amazon-api-gateway-as-a-proxy-for-dynamodb/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/using-amazon-api-gatewa...