Chapter 7: Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
Kinesis Video Streams (KVS) is different than the other Kinesis services you've learned about in the previous chapters. Whereas those services primarily processed independent records in JSON or CSV, KVS is designed to handle time-encoded data. When an application needs to support real-time two-way communications or support the ingestion of video from devices, KVS is the best choice.
Amazon KVS is a managed, secure, durable, low-latency service that can scale to support video ingestion from millions of devices for processing, including analytics and machine learning.
Throughout this chapter, we will refer to the real-time functionality as KVS-WebRTC and the ingestion for further processing or storage as KVS. Together, these two capabilities enable you to build systems that support IoT devices and applications for connected homes, enterprise security, connected vehicles, and manufacturing. You want to use KVS when you need computer...