Amazon Interactive Video Service – Add Live Video to Your Apps and Websites

Price is pretty good, surprisingly. Looks like they take RTMP in and output m3u8 (probably fmp4 behind the scenes). 2 second latency is also not bad.<p>Larger streamers on Twitch can get ~20k concurrent viewers. A long streaming day would be 10 hours. They would also be streaming from NA so using their example pricing suggests:<p>Input: $2&#x2F;hour * 10 hours = $20<p>Output: $0.15 * 10 * 20,000 = $30k<p>A worst case scenario of $30,020&#x2F;day of streaming. Still seems financially unviable. I guess Twitch can stay in business for now.<p>EDIT:<p>Basic table<p><pre><code> Viewers Hours Min Best Worst 20000 10 $7,520 $14,020 $30,020 2000 6 $462 $852 $1,812 500 4 $83 $148 $308 200 2 $19 $32 $64</code></pre>

The proliferation of half-baked services at AWS needs to end. There are way too many services that are just enticing enough to get you to play around with it, but then you realize it&#x27;s totally crippled and unusable for most actual workflows, or that someone else already does it way better. They need to focus on a few that are commercially viable and let other companies prove out the rest.

&gt;Firstly, the video is low latency, which means that the time between you broadcasting and the time the video shows up on your viewer’s screens can be as low as 2-3 seconds.<p>Excuse my ignorance, and I&#x27;m sure 2 seconds is probably an engineering feat, but I&#x27;m genuinely curious. What is it that prevents latency to go as down as a few hundred ms (pretty much close to and IP round trip) ?

I wonder if this will help solve problems created by shelter in place. It seems like it would be easy to spin up a website to stream classes to students using this.

Does anyone know how this would compare to Twilio&#x27;s programmatic video? Specific use case is for livestreaming within a mobile app.

The audio at the top of the page, marked &quot;Voiced by Amazon Polly&quot; has so much dissonance - they&#x27;ve inserted fake sounds to seem as if the speaker is drawing breath, which sounds pretty realistic, but the actual enunciation of words is so robotic and fake-sounding :)

Sometimes it seems things change quickly online, sometimes not so quickly.<p>It’s been about 20 years since we built “broadband activated merchandising” (aka “BAM”) for selling wrestling hats and t-shirts at scale to millions of viewers, contextually triggered along side WWE live event video streams:<p><i>A system and method for enhancing electronic commerce and&#x2F;or communicating information concerning products and&#x2F;or services in connection with multimedia (e.g., video) transmission and delivery is provided. The system and method facilitate targeted marketing and&#x2F;or merchandising in connection with video streams delivered to users across a computer network, e.g., the Internet and&#x2F;or the World Wide Web, by synchronizing ancillary content with the video stream. The method&#x2F;system may be used in a broad range of applications for live, taped live and on-demand video streams.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;patents.google.com&#x2F;patent&#x2F;US20020019978A1&#x2F;en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;patents.google.com&#x2F;patent&#x2F;US20020019978A1&#x2F;en</a><p>In your 640 or 800 px wide browser window, beside the live stream (320x240 at 700 kbps, ahem!), you had a product pane showing contextual offers you could add to your cart, and then check out when the event was over.<p>The stream metadata was fed by a producer watching the live action and using a e-commerce store event dashboard to choose what products to promote when.<p>For comparison, from this AWS article:<p><i>The team have added the ability to send timed metadata along with the video so that you can fire events in your application at crucial points in the live stream... you can build experiences that create a more valuable relationship with your viewers on your own websites and applications. For example, if you were live-streaming a product launch, you could synchronize additional product information to be displayed as new products appear in the video. You could even show a buy now button that allows viewers to purchase the exact product they are watching at that moment on the live-stream.</i><p>Pretty cool to see this descendant!

How does this compare to mux.com?

TwitchAAS?