describe-limits¶

Description¶

Describes the shard limits and usage for the account.

If you update your account limits, the old limits might be returned for a few minutes.

This operation has a limit of one transaction per second per account.

Synopsis¶

  describe-limits
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]

Options¶

--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml.

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. Similarly, if provided yaml-input it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command. The generated JSON skeleton is not stable between versions of the AWS CLI and there are no backwards compatibility guarantees in the JSON skeleton generated.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Examples¶

Note

To use the following examples, you must have the AWS CLI installed and configured. See the Getting started guide in the AWS CLI User Guide for more information.

Unless otherwise stated, all examples have unix-like quotation rules. These examples will need to be adapted to your terminal’s quoting rules. See Using quotation marks with strings in the AWS CLI User Guide .

To describe shard limits

The following describe-limits example displays the shard limits and usage for the current AWS account.

aws kinesis describe-limits

Output:

{
    "ShardLimit": 500,
    "OpenShardCount": 29
}

For more information, see Resharding a Stream in the Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Developer Guide.

Output¶

ShardLimit -> (integer)

The maximum number of shards.

OpenShardCount -> (integer)

The number of open shards.

OnDemandStreamCount -> (integer)

Indicates the number of data streams with the on-demand capacity mode.

OnDemandStreamCountLimit -> (integer)

The maximum number of data streams with the on-demand capacity mode.

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