Did Amazon start a new round of cost cutting, layoffs or something? Yesterday they discontinued Chime. As if Amazon is doubling down on cutting "unnecessary" services
https://slack.com/blog/news/slack-aws-drive-development-agil...
Unofficially, this agreement happened at the same time Amazon started using slack internally
> Note: This does not impact the availability of the Amazon Chime SDK service.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/messaging-and-targeting/update-...
Hopefully they just adopt Zoom and not something even more obscure.
Early in the pandemic I had to use many different systems as an academic, when lots of different contacts pivoted online in different ways. Chime was the least of my problems; it just worked when many other systems struggled.
I liked the Chime meeting/calendar integration at Amazon that could ring everyone at the start of the meeting, meaning that most meetings started promptly.
When they did decide to kill something, like non-VPC EC2, you'd get the notice a literal decade ahead. For this specific example, sunset started end of '13, with the last instance shut off mid '23.
This all started to change a couple of years ago, when they became much more aggressive with doing the Googles and just killing a thing with a few months of a warning. Pity.