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Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS)

  • Timebilled
  • Bytesnot billed
  • Callsbilled

In one line

Input hours and viewer output hours, both by the hour; chat adds a per-message charge.

What gets missed

Input hours accrue for as long as you push video at a channel, with zero viewers watching. Output hours are a separate meter that scales with audience, so a test stream left broadcasting overnight still bills.

Find it on your bill

Filter Cost Explorer or your Cost and Usage Report by these usage types. A usage type with no region prefix means us-east-1.

  • Input-Standard-Hours
  • Output-HD-Hours
  • Messaging-Requests

Bills the same way

These services turn exactly the same meters, so what you learn here transfers.