Media Flashcards
What Is Amazon Elastic Transcoder?
Elastic Transcoder allows businesses and developers to convert (or
“transcode”) media files from their original source format into versions that are optimized for various devices, such as smartphones, tablets, and PCs.
We use Elastic Transcoder to encode our videos you are watching now so
they are optimized for the device you are viewing it on.
What Is Kinesis Video Streams?
If you need to stream media content from a large number of devices to AWS and then run analytics, machine learning (ML, playback, and other processing, consider using
Kinesis Video Streams. A perfect example of this is Ring.
Kinesis Video Streams elastically scales to millions of devices and then stores, encrypts, and indexes video data in your streams. You can then access your data through easy-to-use APIs
video streaming at scale
from millions of devices, think of Amazon Kinesis Video Streams.
