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**To write a record into a data stream**
The following ``put-record`` example writes a single data record into the specified data stream using the specified partition key. ::
aws kinesis put-record \
--stream-name samplestream \
--data sampledatarecord \
--partition-key samplepartitionkey
Output::
{
"ShardId": "shardId-000000000009",
"SequenceNumber": "49600902273357540915989931256901506243878407835297513618",
"EncryptionType": "KMS"
}
For more information, see `Developing Producers Using the Amazon Kinesis Data Streams API with the AWS SDK for Java <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/streams/latest/dev/developing-producers-with-sdk.html>`__ in the *Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Developer Guide*.