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Question 1

Does Amazon Rekognition Video work with Amazon Kinesis Video Streams?

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Answer 1

Rekognition Video uses a Kinesis Video Stream as input, to process a video stream. The analysis results are output from Rekognition Video to a Kinesis data stream and finally read by your client application. Rekognition Video provides a stream processor you can use to start and manage the analysis of streaming video. To learn more, please refer to Working with Streaming Videos.

Question 2

How does Amazon Rekognition count the number of images processed?

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Answer 2

For APIs that accept images as inputs, Amazon Rekognition counts the actual number of images analyzed as the number of images processed. DetectLabels, DetectModerationLabels, DetectFaces, IndexFaces, RecognizeCelebrities, and SearchFaceByImage belong to this category. For the CompareFaces API, where two images are passed as input, only the source image is counted as a unit of images processed.

For API calls that don’t require an image as an input parameter, Amazon Rekognition counts each API call as one image processed. SearchFaces, and ListFaces belong to this category.

The remaining Amazon Rekognition APIs - DeleteFaces, CreateCollection, DeleteCollection, and ListCollections - do not count towards images processed.

Question 3

How does Amazon Rekognition count the number of minutes of videos processed?

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Answer 3

For archived videos, Amazon Rekognition counts the minutes of video that is successfully processed by the API and meters them for billing. For Live stream videos you get charged in chunks of every five seconds of video that we successfully process.

Question 4

Which APIs does Amazon Rekognition charge for?

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Answer 4

Amazon Rekognition Image charges for the following APIs: DetectLabels, DetectModerationLabels, DetectFaces, IndexFaces, RecognizeCelebrities, SearchFaceByImage, CompareFaces, SearchFaces, and ListFaces. Amazon Rekognition Video charges are based on duration of video in minutes, successfully processed by StartLabelDetection, StartFaceDetection, StartFaceDetection, SatrtContentModeration, StartPersonTracking, StartCelebrityRecognition, StartFaceSerach and StartStreamProcessor APIs.

Question 5

How much does Amazon Rekognition cost?

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Answer 5

Please see the Amazon Rekognition Pricing Page for current pricing information.

Question 6

Will I be charged for the feature vectors I store in my face collections?

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Answer 6

Yes. Amazon Rekognition charges $0.01 per 1,000 face vectors per month. For details, please see the pricing page.

Question 7

Does Amazon Rekognition participate in the AWS Free Tier?

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Answer 7

Yes. As part of the AWS Free Usage Tier, you can get started with Amazon Rekognition for free. Upon sign-up, new Amazon Rekognition customers can analyze up to 5,000 images for free each month for the first 12 months. You can use all Amazon Rekognition APIs with this free tier, and also store up to 1,000 faces without any charge. In addition, Amazon Rekognition Video customers can analyze 1,000 minutes of Video free, per month, for the first year.