# Step 5: Publish and Subscribe to Video
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You can publish/subscribe (real-time) to IVS with:
+ The native [IVS broadcast SDKs](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//ivs/latest/LowLatencyUserGuide/getting-started-set-up-streaming.html#broadcast-sdk), which support WebRTC and RTMPS. We recommend this, especially for production scenarios. See the details below for [Web](getting-started-pub-sub-web.md), [Android](getting-started-pub-sub-android.md), and [iOS](getting-started-pub-sub-ios.md).
+ The Amazon IVS console — This is suitable for testing streams. See below.
+ Other streaming software and hardware encoders — You can use any streaming encoder that supports the RTMP, RTMPS, or WHIP protocols. See [Stream Ingest](rt-stream-ingest.md) for more information.

## IVS Console
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1. Open the [Amazon IVS console](https://console.aws.amazon.com/ivs).

   (You can also access the Amazon IVS console through the [AWS Management Console](https://console.aws.amazon.com/).)

1. In the navigation pane, select **Stages**. (If the nav pane is collapsed, expand it by selecting the hamburger icon.)

1. Select the stage to which you want to subscribe or publish, to go to its details page.

1. To subscribe: If the stage has one or more publishers, you can subscribe to it by pressing the **Subscribe** button, under the **Subscribe** tab. (Tabs are below the **General Configuration** section.)

1. To publish:

   1. Select the **Publish** tab.

   1. You will be prompted to grant the IVS console access to your camera and microphone; **Allow** those permissions.

   1. Toward the bottom of the **Publish** tab, use the dropdown boxes to select input devices for the microphone and camera.

   1. To begin publishing, select **Start publishing**.

   1. To view your published content, go back to the **Subscribe** tab.

   1. To stop publishing, go to the **Publish** tab and press the **Stop publishing** button towards the bottom.

**Note**: Subscribing and publishing consume resources, and you will incur an hourly rate for the time you are connected to the stage. To learn more, see [Real-Time Streaming](https://aws.amazon.com/ivs/pricing/#Real-Time_Streaming) on the IVS Pricing page.