Amazon Kinesis Video Streams now supports a new cost effective warm storage tier

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Warm Storage Tier

AWS introduces a new warm storage tier for Amazon Kinesis Video Streams (Amazon KVS), offering cost-effective storage for extended media retention. The existing standard storage tier is now the hot tier, optimized for real-time data access and short-term storage. The warm tier provides long-term media retention with sub-second access latency at reduced storage costs.

This new feature allows developers of home security and enterprise video monitoring solutions to stream data from devices, cameras, and mobile phones cost-effectively while maintaining extended retention periods for video analytics and regulatory compliance. Developers can configure fragment sizes based on their specific needs, choosing smaller fragments for lower latency use cases or larger fragments to reduce ingestion costs. Both hot and warm storage tiers integrate seamlessly with Amazon Rekognition Video and Amazon SageMaker, enabling continuous data processing for computer vision and video analytics applications.

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams with the new warm storage tier is available in all regions where Amazon Kinesis Video Streams is available, except the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

What to do

• Review the getting started guide to learn more.
• Configure fragment sizes based on your specific requirements.
• Integrate with Amazon Rekognition Video and Amazon SageMaker for enhanced analytics.

Source: AWS release notes

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