Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) is a managed live streaming solution, built on the same technology that powers Twitch, that makes low-latency live video available to viewers around the world. Simply send your live streams to Amazon IVS, and the service does everything you need to make them available to your viewers, letting you focus on building engaging and interactive experiences alongside live video.

Amazon IVS Low-latency Streaming pricing is based on the duration of live video sent to Amazon IVS (hours of video input) and the duration of video delivered to viewers (hours of video output). Visit the calculator page to estimate cost, and our pricing page to learn more.

Amazon IVS creates live streams. You can save your Amazon IVS Low-Latency Streaming content to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket. Saved video files are available for editing or streaming as video-on-demand (VOD) content. Recordings saved in Amazon S3 incur standard costs for storage and requests. There is no additional cost for enabling the feature on Amazon IVS Low-Latency channel.

The Amazon IVS console and APIs for control and creation of streams are available in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (Ireland), and Europe (Frankfurt) regions. Video ingestion and delivery are available around the world over a separate, live video optimized, managed network of infrastructure.

The Amazon IVS Low-Latency Streaming capability uses the same technology that powers Twitch and is designed to provide low latency for live video streaming. Actual latency for viewers is usually less than five seconds and can be less than three seconds. For information on the best practice for streaming software like Open Broadcaster Software (OBS), visit the Amazon IVS documentation pages. You must use the Amazon IVS player SDK to get the best low-latency performance across different platforms and devices.