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Understanding Amazon Kinesis Video Streams: A Comprehensive Overview and Operational Mechanism
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams, as a fully managed AWS service, facilitates the streaming of live video from devices to the AWS Cloud. It also supports the development of applications for real-time video processing or batch-oriented video analytics. Beyond serving as mere storage for video data, Kinesis Video Streams allows you to monitor your video streams in real-time as they are transmitted to the cloud. This monitoring can be done either through the AWS Management Console or by creating a custom monitoring application that leverages the Kinesis Video Streams API library to showcase live video.
How Kinesis Video Streams works
Producer — Any entity contributing data to a Kinesis video stream. This can encompass various devices capable of generating video, such as security cameras, body-worn cameras, smartphone cameras, or dashboard cameras. Producers are not limited to video; they can also transmit non-video data like audio feeds, images, or RADAR data.A single producer has the capacity to create multiple video streams. For instance, a video camera may transmit video data to one Kinesis video stream and simultaneously send audio data to another.
