Benefits

Connect and stream from millions of devices – You can use Kinesis Video Streams to connect and stream video, audio, and other data from millions of devices ranging from consumer smartphones, drones, and dash cams. You can use the Kinesis Video Streams producer libraries to configure your devices and reliably stream in real time, or as after-the-fact media uploads.

Durably store, encrypt, and index data – You can configure your Kinesis video stream to durably store media data for custom retention periods. Kinesis Video Streams also generates an index over the stored data based on producer-generated or service-side timestamps. Your applications can retrieve specified data in a stream using the time-index.

Focus on managing applications instead of infrastructure – Kinesis Video Streams is serverless, so there's no infrastructure to set up or manage. You don't need to worry about the deployment, configuration, or elastic scaling of the underlying infrastructure because your data streams and number of consuming applications grow and shrink. Kinesis Video Streams automatically does all the administration and maintenance required to manage streams, so you can focus on the applications, not the infrastructure.

Build real-time and batch applications on data streams – You can use Kinesis Video Streams to build custom real-time applications that operate on live data streams, and create batch or one-time applications that operate on durably persisted data without strict latency requirements. You can build, deploy, and manage custom applications: open source (Apache MXNet, OpenCV), homegrown, or third-party solutions using the AWS Marketplace to process and analyze your streams. You can use Kinesis Video Streams Get APIs to build multiple concurrent applications processing data in a real-time or batch-oriented basis.

Stream data more securely – Kinesis Video Streams encrypts all data as it flows through the service and when it persists the data. Kinesis Video Streams enforces Transport Layer Security (TLS)-based encryption on data streaming from devices, and encrypts all data at rest using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS). Additionally, you can manage access to your data using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).

Pay as you go – For more information, see AWS Pricing Calculator.