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@@ -53,6 +53,15 @@ when creating a Kinesis stream. See [Amazon Kinesis Streams][2] for more.
 * `arn` - The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) specifying the Stream
 
 
+## Import
+
+Kinesis Streams can be imported using the `name`, e.g.
+
+```
+$ terraform import aws_kinesis_stream.test_stream terraform-kinesis-test
+```
+
 [1]: https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/kinesis/
 [2]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kinesis/latest/dev/amazon-kinesis-streams.html
 [3]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/streams/latest/dev/monitoring-with-cloudwatch.html
+