AWS Kinesis Video Streams

Overview

• Handles: cadence, jitter, latency
• Allows near-real time consumption
• Durability
  • Retention period: 1h - 10years
  • Index (time based)
  • Can be accessed by non-latency sensitive applications
• Use cases
  • Home security cameras
  • Amber alert system
  • Equipment preventive maintenance

Stream

• Captures video 
• Supports time-based non-video data
  • Audio, RADAR, LIDAR data, etc.

Fragment

• Sequence of frames
• Self-contained (no dependencies outside the fragment)
• Has metadata

Producer

• Any video generating data
  • e.g. camera
• SDK
  • Wrapper on API
  • Helps processing (e.g. packaging)

Consumer API

• Gets media data from the stream and processes it, e.g.
  • motion detection
  • analyze frame and create metadata
• Uses API
  • GetMediaAPI - frame level

References

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjBXbktBxBg