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#!/usr/bin/env python

import boto3
from datetime import datetime, timedelta

client = boto3.client('cloudwatch', aws_access_key_id=ID,aws_secret_access_key=SECRET, region_name='us-west-2');
metric = client.get_metric_statistics(Namespace="AWS/Firehose", MetricName="DeliveryToRedshift.Records", Period=3600, StartTime=datetime.utcnow() - timedelta(hours=1), EndTime=datetime.utcnow(), Statistics=['Average'], Dimensions=[{"Name":"DeliveryStreamName","Value":STREAM_NAME}]);

print "S: " + str(int(metric['Datapoints'][0]['Average']))