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AWS re:INVENT
Introducing Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
A l l a n M a c i n n i s , S o l u t i o n s A r c h i t e c t , A W S S t r e a m i n g d a t a
A d i t y a K r i s h n a n , H e a d o f A m a z o n K i n e s i s V i d e o S t r e a m s
J e r e m y Z i g m o n d , S o l u t i o n s A r c h i t e c t , A W S
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What to Expect from the Workshop
• Overview of Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
• Step-by-step guide: http://amzn.to/video-streams-workshop
• Set up your Raspberry Pi
• Create your Kinesis video stream to capture video
• Stream video from Raspberry Pi
• Monitor your video stream

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Video is critical to many applications
Smart Home Security
Monitoring
Smart City
Industrial Automation Computer Vision

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Building a video ingestion system is complex
• Cumbersome to rewrite code for various devices and development
environments
• Difficult to elastically scale to millions of devices
• Requires support for cadence, latency, and jitter on streams
• Requires secure, highly scalable, available storage
• Need easy-to-use APIs to retrieve, process, and replay video

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Stream video from millions of devices
Easily build vision-enabled apps
Secure
Durable, searchable storage
Fully managed
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
S t r e a m v i d e o a n d t i m e - e n c o d e d d a t a f o r a n a l y t i c s
Kinesis
Video
Streams

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Concepts

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A Note on Latencies
• Time spent in the device’s hardware media pipeline
• Latency incurred on actual data transmission on the internet
• Latency added by the Kinesis Video Streams as it receives data
from the producer device
• Time latency on data transmission back to the consumer (when
on the internet)
Finally the Kinesis Video Streams management console fetches the
supported H.264 media type, trans-packages it for various
browsers, and allows you to playback streams for development or
test purposes.

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Kinesis Video Streams Product
Details

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• CreateStream : Creates a new video stream
• DeleteStream : Deletes the specified stream
• DescribeStream : Returns the most current
information: version, status, data retention, etc.
about the specified stream
• ListStreams : Returns an array of StreamInfo
objects. Each object describes a stream
• GetDataEndpoint : Gets an endpoint for a
specified stream for either reading or writing
Control Plane APIs (5 of 10)

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• UpdateDataRetention : Increases or decreases
the stream's data retention period
• UpdateStream : Updates stream metadata, such as
the device name and media type
• TagStream : Adds one or more tags (key-value
pair)to a stream to help you define and categorize
• ListTagsForStream : Returns a list of tags
associated with the specified stream
• UntagStream : Removes one or more tags from a
stream
Control Plane APIs (10 of 10)

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• PutMedia : long-running ‘streaming’ API to write
media data to a video stream
• GetMedia : retrieve media content from a video
stream from the specified starting chunk
continuously with low latency
• GetMediaForFragmentList : retrieve media data
for a list of fragments from the stored data in a
video stream
• ListFragments : returns a list of Fragments from
the specified video stream and start location
Data Plane APIs (4 of 4)

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Key Use Cases

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Use case: Smart Home
Ex amp le : Pe t Monitor

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Use case: Smart City
Ex amp le : Amb e r Al e rt S yste m

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Use case: Industrial Automation
Ex amp le : Equ ip me nt Pre ve ntive Mainte nance

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