Deploying a Real-Time Video Streaming Service with AWS Kinesis Video Streams

Streaming video in real time is important for applications such as security cameras, live events, IoT devices, and telemedicine. AWS Kinesis Video Streams (KVS) is a managed service that makes it straightforward to ingest, process, and playback video streams from millions of devices. We’ll walk through the entire process of deploying a real-time video streaming service using AWS Kinesis Video Streams. We’ll begin by understanding the high-level architecture and its core components, followed by setting up the necessary prerequisites and configuring your AWS account. Next, we’ll create a Kinesis Video Stream, build a producer application to send video data into the stream, and then develop a consumer application to retrieve and play the streamed video. We’ll also test the end-to-end streaming pipeline to ensure everything works seamlessly, and finally, we’ll cover essential monitoring and scaling considerations to help you operate the system reliably in production.