# Amazon Kinesis Video Streams

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/amazon-kinesis-video-streams/  
**Website:** https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/video-streams/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

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.

## Kin Score — 50.3 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 50.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 72.7 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 47.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 51.3 |
| Access Clarity | 51.3 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (2)

- **Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Signaling Channels API** — WebRTC signaling channel management
- **Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Streams API** — Video stream management

## Agentic access (1)

- **Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Agentic Access** — 9 operations · 5 acting

## Security (4)

- **Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published
- **Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Trust Center** — PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140

## Plans (1)

- **Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (4)

- **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.

## Tags

IoT, Machine-Learning, Media, Video Streaming

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/amazon-kinesis-video-streams/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.