# Configure Kinesis as a Snowbridge target
> Configure Kinesis target for Snowplow Snowbridge to write data to AWS Kinesis streams with throttle retry handling and IAM authentication.
> Source: https://docs.snowplow.io/docs/api-reference/snowbridge/configuration/targets/kinesis/
> Documentation index: https://docs.snowplow.io/llms.txt

[Snowplow supported](/docs/destinations/#destinations-catalog "Built and supported by Snowplow") · Snowbridge target · Streaming · AWS

Authentication is done via the [AWS authentication environment variables](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-envvars.html). Optionally, you can use the `role_arn` option to specify an ARN to use on the stream.

## Throttle retries

As of 2.4.2, the kinesis target handles kinesis write throughput exceptions separately from all other errors and failures. It will back off and retry only the throttled records on an initial back off of 50ms, increasing by 50ms each time, until there are no more throttle errors.

## Configuration options

Here is an example of the minimum required configuration:

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If you want to use this as a [failure target](/docs/api-reference/snowbridge/concepts/failure-model/#failure-targets), then use failure\_target instead of target. Here is an example of every configuration option:

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If you want to use this as a [failure target](/docs/api-reference/snowbridge/concepts/failure-model/#failure-targets), then use failure\_target instead of target.