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From an outsider's perspective: AWS has a strong anti-google-tools policy. I appreciate Chrome is listed at all ;-) One time I tried to have a video call with
by tamcap 5y ago
From an outsider's perspective: AWS has a strong anti-google-tools policy. I appreciate Chrome is listed at all ;-)
One time I tried to have a video call with someone higher up in AWS, and they were unable to join a Google Meet call we have scheduled for that meeting (and only realized at t+2m).
- temp_account001 5y agoWhy were they unable to? Is there some sort of Amazon corporate firewall that prevents access to Google services?
- rescbr 5y agoProbably it was some incompatibility between Google Meet and Firefox ESR.
- tamcap 5y agoSaid it is the company policy to not use certain competitor's products, and it was neither time not place to drill down further. How it's enforced, I have no idea.
- zeusk 5y agoEnterprise IT usually have blacklists. Microsoft has teamviewer on the list :/
- frakkingcylons 5y agoBeyond that, if you work at a company that large, they actually have to pay quite a lot to for their employees to use it.
- blibble 5y agosadly the AWS gui is horrifically slow in Firefox
- tclancy 5y agoDon’t think that’s Firefox. And what does it matter, really? Who cares how fast you can get to the wrong place, realize this looks not quite anything like the screen you are thinking of and have to message a coworker to see if they had bookmarked the screen you really want.
- tyingq 5y agoI always like that moment in a Chime meeting where some participant is having trouble with the tool and all the AWS people look embarrassed.
- zeusk 5y agoWhat’s chime?
- power78 5y agoAmazon's Chat, it's their Slack or Teams equivalent
- meepmorp 5y agoI just realized that Ring and Chime are separate products and this wasn't about doorbells. Thanks.
- jms55 5y agoNot quite - it's their Zoom equivalent. It's only used for video and voice calls. Amazon uses Slack for messaging.
- mrorbitman 5y agoChime tried to be the internal Slack equivalent for an embarrassingly long time. Slack has only been used for a handful of months, and some (frustratingly) have not yet switched over.
- rajacombinator 5y agoAt first it’s rough but it grows on you. Way more reliable than Hangouts.
- jackson1442 5y agoUsed it for an interview and was pretty disappointed in the video quality. Rather choppy and audio felt really compressed, but that might just be on the far end. Google Meet, at least after their redesign, works really smoothly for me. We use it for our day-to-day meetings at work with non-government clients. Pre-redesign I really didn't care for Meet though.