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Azure Media Player vs. Amazon Kinesis Video Streams

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

MetricAzure Media Player

by Microsoft

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Overall rating4.54.2
Review count1427
Ease of use8.98.7
Ease of setup9.39.3
Quality of support8.79.2
Meets requirements9.09.6
NPS61.53846245.833333
Small Business71.4%48.1%
Mid-Market21.4%29.6%
Enterprise7.1%22.2%
Total page views6587
Total LLM citations4335

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

    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