Amazon Interactive Video Service Documentation

Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) is a managed live video solution that is designed to provide quick and easy set up to let you build interactive experiences and applications with low-latency live video.

Amazon Interactive Video Service is designed to provide all the components needed for a low-latency live video streaming solution. 

Amazon IVS is designed to detect optimal network paths from the streamer’s location and select the best endpoint to receive the input video stream. Live streams are quickly delivered to audiences via a content pipeline designed for live video.

IVS offers stream chat APIs designed to be scalable to build chat rooms to accompany your live streaming video. Use a REST API to inject metadata into a stream and an event-based interface within the Amazon IVS player SDK to retrieve the metadata for clients to build graphics, polls, and other synchronized components such as live sports scores and e-commerce functionality. Live video streams can achieve low latency, with a few seconds between ingest and playback, making applications like polling your audience and voting engaging and interactive. 

Use iOS and Android applications to send live video to Amazon IVS with the mobile broadcast SDK and send direct from a browser using the web broadcast SDK. Websites and applications using the SDK can use the device camera, microphone, screen sources, or use custom audio and video sources. 

The Amazon IVS player SDK is designed to provide a low-latency experience for web, iOS, and Android. The player SDK is designed for Amazon IVS live video streams and to include support for chunked streaming and an adaptive bitrate switching algorithm. The switching algorithm is designed to allow for optimal performance and low latency. You can also restrict video playlists for your streams by channel and viewer using playback authorization.

Use a virtual resource called a stage to enable hosts to exchange audio and video in real time, then broadcast that stage to an Amazon IVS channel.

You can configure Amazon IVS to record live video to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket. Video streams are saved as video files, and can be used to create video-on-demand content or streamed directly as VOD.

With a standard channel, Amazon IVS is designed to convert the incoming live video stream to a range of video resolutions and bitrates. This adaptive bitrate (ABR) stream is meant to provide an improved quality of experience and quality of service across different devices and network conditions.

Amazon IVS is designed to allow customers to quickly start streaming live video, and the service scales for the size of the audience when delivering streams.

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