Amazon Chime

If you’re part of a team, Amazon Chime makes it very easy to stay in touch with all your team members via voice, video, and chat. And if you have a business, Amazon Chime makes it very easy to stay in touch with all the people inside and outside your organization. Amazon Chime is a communications service that provides a secure, efficient, and frustration-free experience.

Amazon Chime was created by Amazon Web Services (AWS), a subsidiary of the internationality renowned Amazon.com. AWS released Amazon Chime to the public in February 2017, saying at the time that Chime offers "frustration-free meetings with exceptional audio and video quality." Amazon Chime is available as a desktop application for Window or Mac and as a mobile app for iOS or Android.

To get started with Amazon Chime on a Windows PC, you’ll have to go through 3 steps. Step 1: download and install Amazon Chime on your PC. Step 2: create a new Amazon Chime account or sign in with your existing Amazon account. Step 3: verify your email address (otherwise Amazon Chime won’t load).

A welcome prompt will show up the first time you run Amazon Chime. Said prompt will inform you that if you’re invited to a meeting, Chime will automatically call you when it’s time for that meeting.

Here’s a quick look at Amazon Chime’s main features: provides support for messaging, voice chat, video chat, screen sharing, and file sharing; lets you set up new meetings or join existing meetings; you can join a meeting even if you don’t have an account; you’ll be notified when it’s time for a meeting; keeps you safe by encrypting all your communications; you can record meetings and store the recording in the cloud; and more.

Amazon Chime is available as a free Basic Edition and as a paid Pro Edition that is free to use for an evaluation period of 30 days. Once the 30-day trial is over, you can choose if you want to purchase Amazon Chime or stick with the free Basic Edition which, as expected, severely limits what you can do: no screen sharing, no personalized meeting URLS, no way to schedule meetings, and so on.

Amazon Web Services created Amazon Chime with a clear goal in mind: to give businesses an efficient, easy to use, and secure means of communicating with people inside and outside the organization.