Write Data to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Using a Studio Notebook

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Write Data to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Using a Studio Notebook

In this lab you will step into the shoes of a data engineer at Pleasantville Taxis. You have been given a big data set to go explore via Apache Zeppelin to understand what data has been collected and to load the data from S3 into a Kinesis Data Stream.

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Lab Info

Level

Beginner

Last updated

Sep 23, 2025

Duration

30m

Challenge

Upload Data to an S3 bucket

Upload the taxi-trips.csv from the lab GitHub repo into the S3 bucket provided.
Challenge

Run the Kinesis Data Analytics Notebook

From the Kinesis console, run the KDA-studio-1-Kinesislab notebook provided and launch in Apache Zeppelin.
Challenge

Import and Execute the Notebook Using Apache Zeppelin
- Download the Zeppelin notebook Taxi Trips Data Loading from S3 to Kinesis-1.zpln from the GitHub Repo.
- Import the notebook as a note in Apache Zeppelin.
- Execute the various commands to load data from S3 to the Kinesis Data Stream.
Challenge

Create a CloudFormation Stack

Create a CloudFormation stack using the CFN Build.yaml file provided in the GitHub repo. Name the stack kinesislab.
Challenge

Create an Amazon Kinesis Data Stream

Create a Kinesis Data Stream named input-stream.

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