I agree. We usually limit ourselves to a small subset of features we are using from AWS. The newer services tend to be less reliable, reasonable. I think part o

I agree. We usually limit ourselves to a small subset of features we are using from AWS. The newer services tend to be less reliable, reasonable. I think part of it is the APIs being too complicated. Have you tried to use Kinesis low level API? You know what I am talking about. Ok, lets use the high level API. Well it is written in Java (and Java only) so you are going to be running a JVM on your end regardless. If you think I am joking: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/streams/latest/dev/shared-throughput-kcl-consumers.html#shared-throughput-kcl-consumers-overview https://docs.aws.amazon.com/streams/latest/dev/shared-throug... I would classify this as a critical issue, and this is part of the reason why we stopped using Kinesis entirely.