The document discusses Amazon Kinesis Video Streams, a fully managed service for ingesting, processing, and analyzing video and image streams at scale. It introduces key use cases like smart home, smart city, and industrial applications. The document outlines how building a video ingestion system is complex, and how Kinesis Video Streams addresses these challenges by allowing developers to easily stream video from millions of devices, build vision-enabled apps, and store video securely with durable and searchable storage. It provides details on the product's capabilities like SDKs for producers and consumers, APIs, pricing, and ecosystem partners integrating with Kinesis Video Streams.

1. © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
AWS re:INVENT
Introducing Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
A d i 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 Vi d e o
S t r e a m s , AW S
A B D 2 1 6

2. © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
What to Expect from the Session
• Overview of Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
• Key use cases
• Product details

3. © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Amazon Kinesis—real-time analytics
Easily collect, process, and analyze real-time, streaming data
Load data streams into
AWS data stores
Analyze data streams with
SQL
Build custom applications
that analyze data streams
Kinesis Data Streams Kinesis Data Firehose Kinesis Data Analytics
SQL

4. © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Video is critical to many applications
Smart Home Security MonitoringSmart City
Industrial Automation Computer Vision

5. © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
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

6. © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
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

7. © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Key Use Cases

8. © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Use case: Smart Home
Example: Pet Monitor

9. © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Use case: Smart City
Example: Amber Aler t Sys tem

10. © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Use case: Industrial Automation
Example: Equipment Pr eventive Maintenanc e

11. © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Kinesis Video Streams
Product Details

12. Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Concept

13. Kinesis Video Streams: Basic Concepts
• Kinesis Video Stream:
• Customer-owned entity that transports video-like data such frames, samples,
and fragments
• Stores durably, and makes it available for both real-time and ad hoc
consumption.
• Kinesis Video Stream only has a single producer publishing data into it.
• Producer:
• Producers put data into Kinesis Video Streams, and include hardware devices
like security cameras, body-worn cams, smartphones, dashcams, etc.
• A single producer can generate one or more Kinesis Video Streams
• Consumer:
• Consumers are applications that get data from Streams to process.
• Consumers get data in real-time/continuous or in batch-oriented path
• Consumers run on the customers own Amazon EC2 instances.

14. © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Amazon Confidential
• Flexible SDK for integration with on-
device hardware media pipelines
• Out-of-the-box integration with AWS
auth mechanism: SigV4
• Flexible Put API to stream Frames or
buffered Fragments or after-the-fact
uploads
• Build custom integrations with diverse
camera and device types
• Secure authN and authZ to connect
devices w/ image sensors to AWS
• Stream video data based on the
preferred transmission scenario
Video Streams SDK offers … … that enables developers to
Kinesis Video Streams Producer SDK
E a s i l y c o n n e c t a n d s t r e a m f r o m c a m e r a s o u r c e s

15. © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Kinesis Video Streams Producer SDK
E a s i l y c o n n e c t a n d s t r e a m f r o m c a m e r a s o u r c e s
Amazon Confidential
Platform independent layer (C)
OO Wrapper Layer (C++ and Java)
Android Linux
For app devs to install on target OS to
build applications. Does not satisfy all
underlying hardware media pipeline,
source listing but makes it easy to do so
For camera-level integrators who want a
object-oriented, high-performance
integration model that satisfies the service
calls but is flexible to customize.
For manufacturers who want full flexibility
to integrate at source and firmware level
for different hardware platform types.

16. © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
• 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)

17. © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
• 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)

18. © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
• 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)

19. © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
POST /putMedia HTTP/1.1
x-amzn-stream-name: StreamName
x-amzn-stream-arn: StreamARN
x-amzn-fragment-timecode-type: FragmentTimecodeType
x-amzn-producer-start-timestamp: ProducerStartTimestamp
Payload
• Before using this API, you must call the GetDataEndpoint API to get an endpoint
• Use a single long-running PutMedia session and send a large number of media data
fragments in the payload. For each fragment received, Kinesis Video Streams sends one
or more acknowledgements.
• You can choose multiple consecutive PutMedia sessions, each with fewer fragments to
ensure that you get all acknowledgements from the service in real time.
PutMedia Details

20. © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
POST /getMedia HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/json
{
"StartSelector": {
"AfterFragmentNumber": "string",
"ContinuationToken": "string",
"StartSelectorType": "string",
"StartTimestamp": number
},
"StreamARN": "string",
"StreamName": "string"
}
• Before using this API, you must call the GetDataEndpoint API to get an endpoint
• Kinesis Video Streams stores each incoming fragment and related metadata in what is
called a "chunk“. The GetMedia API returns a stream of these chunks starting from the
chunk that you specify in the request.
GetMedia Details

21. © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Kinesis Video Streams Parser Library
S o f t wa r e t h a t m a k e s i t e a s y t o wo r k wi t h G e t M e d i a o u t p u t
• Get a frame-level object and its associated metadata
• Extract and collect video streams-specific metadata attached for fragments
• Merge consecutive fragments
• Build into your custom ML or other video-processing applications

22. Kinesis Video Streams Pricing
P a y f o r v o l u m e o f d a t a i n g e s t , s t o r e d , a n d c o n s u m e d
Data Ingested
(per GB)
Data Consumed
(per GB)
Data Stored
(per GB-Month)
US EAST (N. Virginia) $ 0.00850 $ 0.00850 $ 0.0230
US WEST (Oregon) $ 0.00850 $ 0.00850 $ 0.0230
EU (Ireland) $ 0.00944 $ 0.00944 $ 0.0230
EU (Frankfurt) $ 0.01020 $ 0.01020 $ 0.0245
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) $ 0.01097 $ 0.01097 $ 0.0250

23. © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Ecosystem

24. © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Amazon Rekognition Video and Kinesis Video

25. © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Agent Vi: Make any surveillance camera smart

26. © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Health
Deep
Learnin
g
GPU
Events
Analytic
s
Search
Admin
Portal
BW
Optimai
zer
API
Gatewa
y
Cache
S3
RDS
Agent Vi and Kinesis Video Streams Integration
Agent Relay Kinesis Produce
r
Video Clip
innoVi Micro Services Kinesis Gateway Clip Player
Consumer
SDK
Producer
SDK
Kinesis
Video Stream

27. © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Veritone: B ring A I t o video analyt ics

28. © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.

29. © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Amazon Kinesis—real-time analytics
Easily collect, process, and analyze video and data streams in real time
Capture, process,
and store video
streams for analytics
Load data streams
into AWS data stores
Analyze data streams
with SQL
Build custom
applications that
analyze data streams
Kinesis Video Streams Kinesis Data Streams Kinesis Data Firehose Kinesis Data Analytics
SQL
New at re:Invent 2017
Amazon Confidential

30. © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
THANK YOU!
V i s i t a w s . a m a z o n . c o m / k i n e s i s / v i d e o - s t r e a m s