Amazon Kinesis Video Streams now supports a new cost effective warm storage tier
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This article announces a new warm storage tier for Amazon Kinesis Video Streams, providing cost-effective long-term media retention with maintained performance.
- New warm tier enables cost-effective long-term video retention with sub-second access latency
- Existing storage tier redesignated as hot tier for real-time data and short-term storage
- Developers can configure fragment sizes for latency or cost optimization
- Supports home security and enterprise video monitoring use cases
- Integrates with Amazon Rekognition Video and SageMaker for analytics
- Available in all regions except AWS GovCloud (US)
The warm storage tier provides a flexible, cost-effective solution for extended video retention while maintaining performance for analytics and compliance requirements.
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