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AWS uses Slack Internally.

by p0rkbelly 5y ago

dragosmocrii 5y ago
I think Chime is also used internally, and for virtual interviews.
- hughrr 5y ago
  It is. I spend about 2 hours a week arguing with AWS staff over chime. It’s quite decent.
txru 5y ago
Amazon allows people to use Slack internally. Chime is still at least the back end for all meetings. And in practice, because Chime chat is still supported, many managers tell their teams to always keep Chime open in case someone messages them there. There’s no way to tell who is on Slack vs on Chime.
- derefr 5y ago
  In other words, Chime is to Amazon as Sametime is to IBM.
  - vxNsr 5y ago
    Sametime is/was great, it had all the functionality teams/Skype/slack are still working on implementing. It was just tied to a dying email client.
- manquer 5y ago
  There is no difference, Slack itself tied up with AWS to use chime for their own voice/video calling [1] [1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/4/21280829/slack-amazon-aws-partnership-amazon-chime-voice-video-calls https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/4/21280829/slack-amazon-aws-...
- dingusthemingus 5y ago
  I feel like every company is like this, keep slack and gchat open at my work...
vwem 5y ago
For chat yes, but not for video calls (and like others pointed out, some still avoid Slack depending on the user. Devs seem to universally use Slack thankfully)
manquer 5y ago
Lol. Slack uses Chime SDK for voice/video calls [1]. That is partly why Amazon uses Slack in the first place. [1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/4/21280829/slack-amazon-aws-partnership-amazon-chime-voice-video-calls https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/4/21280829/slack-amazon-aws-...
- Spivak 5y ago
  Which is amazing because Slack calls are so bad that they pushed us to pay for Zoom licensing. It can bring a brand new $2k laptop to a sputtering halt. Which is bad but honestly fine for meetings. Where it lost us was that we couldn’t use it for pair/group work because our tools would become so slow as to be unusable.
  - manquer 5y ago
    My guess is they got a pretty good deal on Voice/Video from AWS, or perhaps a better deal for entire AWS infra. Kind of sad as video is a extra paid feature!. It is very limited in functionality, no screen share or view on mobile, no easy way to do audio/phone bridge. The connections or bad that my org disabled audio/video calling on slack and encourage users to use Teams only.

AWS uses Slack Internally.

dragosmocrii 5y ago

I think Chime is also used internally, and for virtual interviews.

hughrr 5y ago
It is. I spend about 2 hours a week arguing with AWS staff over chime. It’s quite decent.

txru 5y ago

Amazon allows people to use Slack internally. Chime is still at least the back end for all meetings. And in practice, because Chime chat is still supported, many managers tell their teams to always keep Chime open in case someone messages them there. There’s no way to tell who is on Slack vs on Chime.

derefr 5y ago
In other words, Chime is to Amazon as Sametime is to IBM.
- vxNsr 5y ago
  Sametime is/was great, it had all the functionality teams/Skype/slack are still working on implementing. It was just tied to a dying email client.
manquer 5y ago
There is no difference, Slack itself tied up with AWS to use chime for their own voice/video calling [1] [1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/4/21280829/slack-amazon-aws-partnership-amazon-chime-voice-video-calls https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/4/21280829/slack-amazon-aws-...
dingusthemingus 5y ago
I feel like every company is like this, keep slack and gchat open at my work...

vwem 5y ago

For chat yes, but not for video calls (and like others pointed out, some still avoid Slack depending on the user. Devs seem to universally use Slack thankfully)

manquer 5y ago

Lol. Slack uses Chime SDK for voice/video calls [1]. That is partly why Amazon uses Slack in the first place. [1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/4/21280829/slack-amazon-aws-partnership-amazon-chime-voice-video-calls https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/4/21280829/slack-amazon-aws-...

Spivak 5y ago
Which is amazing because Slack calls are so bad that they pushed us to pay for Zoom licensing. It can bring a brand new $2k laptop to a sputtering halt. Which is bad but honestly fine for meetings. Where it lost us was that we couldn’t use it for pair/group work because our tools would become so slow as to be unusable.
- manquer 5y ago
  My guess is they got a pretty good deal on Voice/Video from AWS, or perhaps a better deal for entire AWS infra. Kind of sad as video is a extra paid feature!. It is very limited in functionality, no screen share or view on mobile, no easy way to do audio/phone bridge. The connections or bad that my org disabled audio/video calling on slack and encourage users to use Teams only.