Create an Amazon Kinesis video stream
This section describes how to create a Kinesis video stream.
This section contains the following procedures:
Create a video stream using the console
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Open the console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/kinesisvideo/home
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On the Video streams page, choose Create video stream.
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On the Create a new video stream page, enter
YourStreamName
for the stream name. Leave the Default configuration button selected. -
Choose Create video stream.
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After Amazon Kinesis Video Streams creates the stream, review the details on the YourStreamName page.
Create a video stream using the AWS CLI
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Verify that you have the AWS CLI installed and configured. For more information, see the AWS Command Line Interface documentation.
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Run the following
Create-Stream
command in the AWS CLI:aws kinesisvideo create-stream --stream-name "
YourStreamName
" --data-retention-in-hours 24The response will look similar to the following:
{ "StreamARN": "arn:aws:kinesisvideo:
us-west-2
:123456789012
:stream/YourStreamName
/123456789012
" }