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Amazon Kinesis Video Streams vs. Azure Media Player

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

MetricAmazon Kinesis Video Streams

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Azure Media Player

by Microsoft

Overall rating4.24.5
Review count2714
Ease of use8.78.9
Ease of setup9.39.3
Quality of support9.28.7
Meets requirements9.69.0
NPS45.83333361.538462
Small Business48.1%71.4%
Mid-Market29.6%21.4%
Enterprise22.2%7.1%
Total page views8765
Total LLM citations3354

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 Media Player

    Azure Media Player is a web video player built to playback media content from Microsoft Azure Media Services on a wide variety of browsers and devices. Azure Media Player utilizes industry standards, such as HTML5, Media Source Extensions (MSE) and Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) to provide an enriched adaptive streaming experience.

    Pros