Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) is a managed live streaming solution, built on the same technology that powers Twitch, that makes real-time 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. You can customize and enhance the audience experience through the broadcast SDKs and the Chat APIs, giving you the tools to build a more valuable relationship with your viewers on your own websites and applications.

Amazon IVS Real-time Streaming pricing is based on the duration a participant—either host or viewer, is connected to a stage resource. Visit the calculator page to estimate cost, and our pricing page to learn more.

Yes. Simply have your participant(s) publish or subscribe to audio only.

Amazon IVS Real-time offers two recording options for creating video-on-demand content: Individual Participant Recording captures each publisher separately, and Composite Recording combines multiple publishers into a single view. Both options save recordings to Amazon S3 as HLS segments that can be played back later using the IVS player.

The end-to-end latency for Amazon IVS Real-Time Streaming can be under 300 milliseconds from host to viewer. The actual latency will depend on on a number of factors, including the unique device and network configuration of each publisher and subscriber.