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Re:Amazon Kinesis Available For All Customers by Kequc on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @06:41AM (#6920588)
When I think of streaming my first thought is that this is a cloud service that processes audio and video in real-time. But none of the example use cases mention that is a possibility. I'd love the ability to stream and convert audio then forward converted files to S3 in a simple way.

Currently it involves running an EC2 instance which only converts after the audio is received in full. Then when it's done, transferring it to S3 is... slow.

Re:Amazon Kinesis Available For All Customers by n3thin on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @06:47AM (#6920611)
you might need to look into http://aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/ if it can satisfy your use-case
Re:Amazon Kinesis Available For All Customers by warptera1 on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @11:38AM (#6922021)
Take a look at the Zencoder (YC W10) API: http://zencoder.com/en/

It's since been acquired by Brightcove. [Disclaimer: I work there.]

Re:Amazon Kinesis Available For All Customers by Kequc on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @06:55AM (#6920631)
The audio file must exist somewhere, it offers no live audio support. So the bottleneck would be at the beginning rather than the end.
Re:Amazon Kinesis Available For All Customers by theg2 on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @09:57AM (#6921397)
Elastic Transcoder doesn't support this natively, we ran into this issue so ended up rolling our own solution as the commercial versions were incredibly expensive for a non-profit.
Re:Amazon Kinesis Available For All Customers by bgruber on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @09:06AM (#6921106)
amazon says real-time, but i'm 99% sure they mean (comparatively) low latency.