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by toomuchtodo 679 days ago
https://aws.amazon.com/chime/
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__float 679 days ago
Doesn't Amazon/AWS use this very heavily? Whenever we have to get on a call with AWS engineers it's through Chime.

As a product, it seems fine. I'm not entirely sure it's an area AWS really needed to have a competitor, but now that they do, /shrug

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toomuchtodo 679 days ago
At every org I've had to interface at a deep level with AWS, they've used our Zoom. n=1
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JustinGarrison 679 days ago
If you get rid of chime you also get rid of slack huddles (built on Chime). Like many AWS services the backend of Chime is good, the UX/UI is terrible.
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toomuchtodo 679 days ago
TIL, interesting design decision on Slack's part.
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JustinGarrison 679 days ago
It was a business decision because slack's old /call command was built on a startup they aquired. I don't know the details but I'm sure Amazon gets deep discounts on slack and slack get's the same for chime.

https://slack.com/blog/news/slack-aws-drive-development-agil...

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