Category: Announcements

The Amazon Chime SDK is a set of real-time communications components that developers can use to quickly add audio calling, video calling, and screen sharing capabilities to their own applications. Developers can leverage the same communication infrastructure and services that power Amazon Chime, an online meetings service from AWS, to deliver engaging experiences in their […]

On 7/24/2023, Amazon Chime SDK introduced enhancements to the composition capability of media pipelines in Amazon Chime SDK. These enhancements enable the combination of multiple video streams and screen sharing into a unified virtual presentation. Users can overlay videos and create dynamic transitions to enhance the visual experience. Additionally, 10 new layout elements have been […]

Adoption of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications continues to grow, with many organizations now utilizing hundreds of SaaS apps across their business. While organizations routinely leverage SaaS apps to improve employee productivity, many suffer from security issues and inefficiencies resulting from data silos. IT and security teams face challenges related to quickly identifying and responding to security […]

Amazon Chime SDK launches hands-on workshop for real-time call analytics You can now learn how to use Amazon Chime SDK real-time call analytics with the Using Amazon Chime Call Analytics Workshop, a recent addition to AWS Workshops, a growing collection of self-paced tutorials designed to teach practical skills and techniques to solve business problems with AWS. […]

Amazon Chime is a meetings and video conferencing service. Developers can use the same communications infrastructure to add audio, video, and screen sharing capabilities directly to their applications using the Amazon Chime SDK. Since the launch of the Amazon Chime SDK at re:Invent 2019, many of our customers have been using the SDK to embed […]

On April 6, we released Amazon Chime proxy phone sessions. Developers can now easily enable two users to call or text for up to twelve hours, without requiring users to share their personal phone numbers. Instead of reaching each other using personal phone numbers, they use a number provided on demand by Amazon Chime proxy phone […]

Today, AWS announced the latest version of Amazon Chime SDK for JavaScript, Version 1.2.1 (available on npm and GitHub). This new version fully supports the Safari versions 13.0 and above. This update enables users of applications built with the Amazon Chime SDK to share screens or application windows from Safari browsers (previous versions of the […]