Until a few years ago, the undisputed king of video calls was Skype, but with the advent of Hangouts and other lesser-known services, Microsoft's platform began to lose users by not being able to adapt quickly to the needs of users. Video conferencing has become commonplace in many companies when it comes to holding meetings at any time not in person and Amazon believes that there is still room for yet another new service. Amazon Chime is the new video conferencing service aimed at companies like Skype Business or Hangouts that has been directed directly to the company, leaving aside the users.
Currently Amazon Web Services is one of the companies that offers the best prices when it comes to hosting content in the cloud for companies and of course did not want to miss this opportunity to launch this video calling service, a service that you want to popularize among your customers mainly. This service is also available to make calls between two people for free, but if we want to add a third, we must go to the checkout, an option available on Skype for several months but unlike Amazon is available for free.
Amazon Chime is available on the main platforms both desktop (Windows. And macOS) and mobile (iOS and Android). As I have mentioned above to get more out of Amazon Chime, we will have to go to the checkout and pay $ 2,5 per user to share screen and offer remote control or computers. But if we pay 15 dollars a month we will be able to make video calls of up to 100 people together, a personalized web address to join the meetings, recording the meetings ...