(Reuters) Chime, Amazon’s unified communications service, will no longer be supported starting next year, and the company will stop taking on new clients on Wednesday.
Chime, which enables users to meet, talk, and make business calls both inside and outside the company, has long been the go-to video call tool for Amazon employees.
“After careful consideration, we have decided to end support for the Amazon Chime service, including business calling features, effective February 20, 2026,” a blog post from AWS, Amazon’s cloud division, stated.
According to many media sources, the business also shut down Inspire, its short-form video and photo feed that was similar to TikTok and formerly accessible through its mobile app, earlier this week.
According to an exclusive Reuters report earlier in February, Amazon has planned a press event later this month to preview its eagerly anticipated and long-delayed Alexa generative artificial intelligence speech service.
According to figures provided by LSEG, AWS reported a 19% increase in sales to $28.79 billion for the first quarter, falling shy of a forecast of $28.87 billion. Amazon reports low cloud numbers, joining smaller cloud providers Google and Microsoft.
(Alan Barona edited; Juby Babu reported from Mexico City.)
