Amazon Chime, the know-how titan’s underwhelming choice to Zoom and Google Meet, is closing down fully. The enterprise on Wednesday validated it’ll definitely end help for Chime, together with its Group Calling features, on Feb. 20, 2026.
As part of this modification, Amazon stop approving brand-new Chime accounts since Feb. 19, 2025.
From at present until Chime’s finish of life, current shoppers will definitely nonetheless have the flexibility to timetable and host conferences, embody and maintain people, and make use of features within the Amazon Chime administration console, a company blog post explains. The Amazon Chime SDK, nonetheless, will definitely not be influenced.
Clients are inspired to take away their data previous to the closure and make the relocate to at least one extra web conferences resolution. Amazon suggests numerous different companies like AWS Wickr, Zoom, or Salesforce’s Slack.
Info of the closure was initially reported by Business Insider, which retains in thoughts that Amazon will definitely make Zoom its fundamental convention utility transferring ahead.
Launched in 2017 with a think about service use, Chime had little fostering past Amazon itself. This aspect vastly added to its closure, a speaker knowledgeable {the electrical} outlet.
