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Amazon Kinesis Video Streams vs. Azure Encoding

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAmazon Kinesis Video Streams

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Azure Encoding

by Microsoft

Overall rating4.24.2
Review count2710
Ease of use8.78.9
Ease of setup9.38.6
Quality of support9.28.6
Meets requirements9.68.9
NPS45.83333340
Small Business48.1%60.0%
Mid-Market29.6%20.0%
Enterprise22.2%20.0%
Total page views8758
Total LLM citations3350

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams makes it easy to securely stream media from connected devices to AWS for storage, analytics, machine learning (ML), playback, and other processing. Kinesis Video Streams automatically provisions and elastically scales all the infrastructure needed to ingest streaming media from millions of devices. It durably stores, encrypts, and indexes media in your streams, and allows you to access your media through easy-to-use APIs.

Pros

    Azure Encoding

    Live encoding expands on the industry-proven live cloud platform, and can be combined with dynamic packaging, dynamic encryption, sub-clipping, dynamic manifest manipulation, ad marker insertion, and seamless live-to-on-demand capabilities, to build comprehensive live and cloud DVR workflows.

    Pros