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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Configuration;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using Newtonsoft.Json;



using Amazon;
using Amazon.EC2;
using Amazon.EC2.Model;
using Amazon.Kinesis;
using Amazon.Kinesis.Model;
using Amazon.SimpleDB;
using Amazon.SimpleDB.Model;
using Amazon.S3;
using Amazon.S3.Model;

namespace AwsConsoleApp1
{
    class Program
    {
        public static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string input;
            Console.WriteLine("Type a value to be sent to the cloud");
            input = Console.ReadLine();
            Console.Write(GetServiceOutput(input));
            Console.Read();
        }

        public static string GetServiceOutput(string input)
        {
            string output;

            string text = input;

            byte[] oByte = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(text));

            using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(oByte))
            {
                //create config that points to AWS region
                AmazonKinesisConfig config = new AmazonKinesisConfig();
                config.RegionEndpoint = Amazon.RegionEndpoint.USEast1;

                //create client that pulls creds from web.config and takes in Kinesis config
                AmazonKinesisClient client = new AmazonKinesisClient(config);

                //create put request
                PutRecordRequest requestRecord = new PutRecordRequest();
                //list name of Kinesis stream
                requestRecord.StreamName = "TestStream";
                //give partition key that is used to place record in particular shard
                requestRecord.PartitionKey = "testkey";
                //add record as memorystream
                requestRecord.Data = ms;

                //PUT the record to Kinesis
                PutRecordResponse responseRecord = client.PutRecord(requestRecord);

                //show shard ID and sequence number to user
                output = "Shard ID: " + responseRecord.ShardId;
                output = output + "Sequence #:" + responseRecord.SequenceNumber;
                return output;
            }
        }
    }
}