Optimize long-term video storage costs with Amazon Kinesis Video Streams warm storage tier
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This article explains how to optimize video storage costs using Amazon Kinesis Video Streams' new warm storage tier, launched November 26, 2025.
- Warm tier provides up to 67% cost reduction compared to hot tier storage
- Warm tier built on S3 Standard-IA with 99.9% availability and 11 nines durability
- Fragment-based billing (not GB-based) enables cost control through fragment size adjustment
- 30-day minimum retention period required; warm tier breaks even at ~1 second fragments
- Higher bitrates yield greater savings; 10Mbps streams achieve 55% cost reduction
- Unified APIs work across both tiers; seamless playback regardless of storage tier
- Warm tier optimal for retention periods exceeding 30 days with longer fragment lengths
Kinesis Video Streams warm tier enables cost-effective long-term video retention for surveillance and IoT applications by optimizing fragment length, retention period, and bitrate.
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