<note> <p>This documentation is for version 1 of the Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics API, which only supports SQL applications. Version 2 of the API supports SQL and Java applications. For more information about version 2, see <a href="/kinesisanalytics/latest/apiv2/Welcome.html">Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics API V2 Documentation</a>.</p> </note> <p>Adds a reference data source to an existing application.</p> <p>Amazon Kinesis Analytics reads reference data (that is, an Amazon S3 object) and creates an in-application table within your application. In the request, you provide the source (S3 bucket name and object key name), name of the in-application table to create, and the necessary mapping information that describes how data in Amazon S3 object maps to columns in the resulting in-application table.</p> <p> For conceptual information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kinesisanalytics/latest/dev/how-it-works-input.html">Configuring Application Input</a>. For the limits on data sources you can add to your application, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kinesisanalytics/latest/dev/limits.html">Limits</a>. </p> <p> This operation requires permissions to perform the <code>kinesisanalytics:AddApplicationOutput</code> action. </p>