# Optimize Amazon Kinesis Data Streams consumers
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You can further optimize your Amazon Kinesis Data Streams consumer based on specific behavior you see. 

Review the following topics to identify solutions.

**Topics**
+ [Improve low-latency processing](kinesis-low-latency.md)
+ [Process serialized data using AWS Lambda with the Amazon Kinesis Producer Library](kinesis-record-deaggregation.md)
+ [Use resharding, scaling, and parallel processing to change the number of shards](kinesis-record-processor-scaling.md)
+ [Handle duplicate records](kinesis-record-processor-duplicates.md)
+ [Handle startup, shutdown, and throttling](kinesis-record-processor-additional-considerations.md)