Amazon Kinesis Video Streams

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams makes it easy to securely stream video from connected devices to AWS for analytics, machine learning, playback, and other processing. It automatically provisions and elastically scales all the infrastructure needed to ingest streaming video data from millions of devices.

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: Signaling Channels API and Streams API. Tagged areas include IoT, Machine-Learning, Media, and Video Streaming.

The Amazon Kinesis Video Streams catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams’ developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, documentation, support, engineering blog, developer console, signup flow, and 14 more developer resources.

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53.3/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-10 · rubric v0.20.0

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 APIs 5 Features 4 Use Cases

IoT Machine-Learning Media Video Streaming

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scored 2026-09-10 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 53.3/100 · developing

Contract Quality 15.9 / 23

Developer Ergonomics 10.1 / 18

Access Clarity 11.1 / 18

Operational Transparency 3.1 / 12

Contract Governance 3.1 / 11

Discoverability 5.3 / 9

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Signaling Channels API

WebRTC signaling channel management

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Streams API

Video stream management

Postman Collections 2

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Signaling Channels API

POSTMAN

Amazon Kinesis Video Signaling Channels Streams API

POSTMAN

Open Collections 4

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Signaling Channels API

OPEN COLLECTION

Amazon Kinesis Video Signaling Channels Streams API

OPEN COLLECTION

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Finops

FINOPS

Features 5

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Durable Video Storage

Stores, encrypts, and indexes video data in streams and allows access to data through APIs.

WebRTC Support

Provides signaling and relay services for two-way real-time media streaming between WebRTC-enabled devices.

ML Integration

Integrates with Amazon Rekognition Video for real-time computer vision and object detection.

Scalable Ingestion

Automatically provisions and elastically scales infrastructure to ingest video from millions of devices.

Playback

Supports live and on-demand playback with HLS streaming.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Context

2 classes · 7 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams API Rules

24 rules · 9 errors 15 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Channel

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Stream

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 2

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Channel Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Stream Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Channel Example

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Stream Example

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Trust Center

PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Agentic Access

9 operations · 5 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 4

What developers build with this provider.

Smart Home Security

Stream video from security cameras for real-time monitoring and alerts.

Industrial Monitoring

Monitor manufacturing processes and equipment with video analytics.

Autonomous Vehicles

Ingest sensor and video streams from autonomous vehicles for ML model training.

Live Video Streaming

Deliver live video streams to viewers with low latency using WebRTC.

Integrations 3

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

Amazon Rekognition

Analyze streaming video with computer vision for object and face detection.

AWS IoT Core

Connect IoT cameras and devices to stream video to Amazon Kinesis Video Streams.

Amazon SageMaker

Use video data for machine learning model training and inference.

Resources

Get Started 5

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

Console

Signup

Login

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

SpectralRules

SpectralRules

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

PostmanWorkspace

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

StatusPage

StatusPage

Contact

Contact

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: amazon-kinesis-video-streams
name: Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
description: Amazon Kinesis Video Streams makes it easy to securely stream video from connected devices to AWS for analytics,
  machine learning, playback, and other processing. It automatically provisions and elastically scales all the infrastructure
  needed to ingest streaming video data from millions of devices.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/amazon-kinesis-video-streams.png
tags:
- AWS
- IoT
- Machine-Learning
- Media
- Video Streaming
tags_raw:
- AWS
- IoT
- Machine Learning
- Media
- Video Streaming
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-kinesis-video-streams/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: amazon-kinesis-video-streams:amazon-kinesis-video-streams-signaling-channels-api
  name: Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Signaling Channels API
  description: WebRTC signaling channel management
  humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/video-streams/
  baseURL: https://kinesisvideo.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Signaling Channels
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-signaling-channels-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kinesisvideostreams/latest/dg/API_Reference.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/video-streams/getting-started/
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/video-streams/pricing/
  - type: FAQ
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/video-streams/faqs/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-stream-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-channel-schema.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-context.jsonld
- aid: amazon-kinesis-video-streams:amazon-kinesis-video-streams-streams-api
  name: Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Streams API
  description: Video stream management
  humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/video-streams/
  baseURL: https://kinesisvideo.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Streams
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-streams-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kinesisvideostreams/latest/dg/API_Reference.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/video-streams/getting-started/
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/video-streams/pricing/
  - type: FAQ
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/video-streams/faqs/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-stream-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-channel-schema.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-context.jsonld
common:
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/amazon-kinesis-video-streams/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-authentication.yml
- type: Portal
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/video-streams/
- type: Portal
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/video-streams/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kinesisvideostreams/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/
- type: Support
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/
- type: Blog
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/media/tag/amazon-kinesis-video-streams/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/aws
- type: Console
  url: https://console.aws.amazon.com/kinesisvideo/
- type: Signup
  url: https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup
- type: Login
  url: https://signin.aws.amazon.com/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
- type: Contact
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/
- type: Features
  data:
  - name: Durable Video Storage
    description: Stores, encrypts, and indexes video data in streams and allows access to data through APIs.
  - name: WebRTC Support
    description: Provides signaling and relay services for two-way real-time media streaming between WebRTC-enabled devices.
  - name: ML Integration
    description: Integrates with Amazon Rekognition Video for real-time computer vision and object detection.
  - name: Scalable Ingestion
    description: Automatically provisions and elastically scales infrastructure to ingest video from millions of devices.
  - name: Playback
    description: Supports live and on-demand playback with HLS streaming.
- type: UseCases
  data:
  - name: Smart Home Security
    description: Stream video from security cameras for real-time monitoring and alerts.
  - name: Industrial Monitoring
    description: Monitor manufacturing processes and equipment with video analytics.
  - name: Autonomous Vehicles
    description: Ingest sensor and video streams from autonomous vehicles for ML model training.
  - name: Live Video Streaming
    description: Deliver live video streams to viewers with low latency using WebRTC.
- type: Integrations
  data:
  - name: Amazon Rekognition
    description: Analyze streaming video with computer vision for object and face detection.
  - name: AWS IoT Core
    description: Connect IoT cameras and devices to stream video to Amazon Kinesis Video Streams.
  - name: Amazon SageMaker
    description: Use video data for machine learning model training and inference.
- type: SpectralRules
  url: rules/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-spectral-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-vocabulary.yaml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-parent: aws
x-relationship: product

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