Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams (KVS) is a fully managed AWS service designed to securely ingest, process, and store live and recorded video streams for analytics, machine learning, and playback. It enables developers to build applications that capture, process, and store video from millions of…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2017
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Amazon Kinesis Video Streams was created to solve the significant challenges associated with reliably ingesting, storing, processing, and analyzing video data at scale from a vast number of disparate devices. Before KVS, developers faced the arduous task of setting up and managing their own streaming infrastructure, handling codec compatibility, ensuring durable storage, scaling for millions of devices, and integrating video into AI/ML pipelines, which was particularly complex for live video.
- Platforms
- AWS Cloud
Related technologies
Notable users
- Security and surveillance
- Healthcare
- Ring (an Amazon company)
- Various enterprises in smart home
- Industrial IoT
- Automotive