We use Amazon Chime daily for our employees. We can use the chat feature and we can do meetings and or training via screen sharing. It is very user friendly and lots of features.
Pros
Chat Features
Calling a coworker
Meetings
Screen Sharing
Cons
Just keep adding features
Keep improving options
Allow for more than one connection for standard user
Likelihood to Recommend
We have nothing but good things to say about Amazon Chime. It is very user friendly and has features that other software companies charge for. Only improvement that would make it better is to allow a standard user to connect to multiple people IE Mini Meeting, vs the admin user.
I used my Amazon chime for interviews with Amazon. It is the best interview application for amazon interviews. It's fast and user-friendly.
There are about 100 employees in my department and the good thing of amazon chime is it can allow 250 people in the meeting so all the employees can join at once if needed. We record all the meetings and audio quality is good.
We join the meeting with just a simple click which is pretty easy.
Also, the best thing of chime is it's compatible with slack. W also use slack for meetings and chat and through Slack we can host the chime meetings.
Pros
Video calling
Audio is good
Very fast
User friendly.
Cons
Graphical interface.
Try to make it more user friendly.
User interface.
Likelihood to Recommend
I have given 2 amazon interviews. It's really great for interviews.
Also amazon employees use it for daily chats and work messages.
I would definitely like to recommend Amazon chime for all the amazon interviews. Its desktop application is pretty easy to set up and it's basic so any layman can understand how to use it.
Amazon Chime is a great platform for video call and conferences, we are using it in our organization for the same. We schedule classes and daily meeting on it. It is pretty similar to zoom we shifted to amazon chime just for cost cutting, zoom is a bit expensive in comparison to chime. Every feature which is required for a conferencing tool, whether it's screen sharing or file sharing is available on this platform.
Pros
It is a cost effective solution for your daily meetings.
Easy User interface
Cons
Its new in the market and less people know about it so its difficult for a new user to logged into it for the first time
Likelihood to Recommend
If you love to work with amazon tools this is a platform for you. Just a single click and you'll logged into your account. You can schedule meetings using chime.
In our organization, we use Amazon Chime for conducting online audio and video conferences. Basis on a client recommendation, we started using Amazon Chime in only one department, and other departments use other conferencing apps. With [Amazon] Chime, business communication including client calls, internal meetings has become easy, more secure, and cost effective. It gives you an option to do IM, personalize a meeting link, instantly start a meeting or scheduling a meeting at a later time within your organization and outside the organization users via desktop app, web app, and mobile app. Amazon voice focus (noise suppression) features, screen sharing, Background blur, audio, and video quality works fine and up to expectation.
Pros
Noise suppression and Background blur
Screen share and IM chat
Audio and video quality
Collaboration on chat and file sharing of up to 50MB
Separate chat rooms and you can add a chat bot in a chat room
Cons
User interface look and feel can be improved
Live captioning
Transcripts for recording meetings can be generated
More emoji could be added
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon Chime is well suited for online video and audio meetings, IMs, and conducting training sessions using a whiteboard. It can be integrated well with Google Calendar and Microsoft outlook. With Amazon Chime mobile app you can attend meetings on the go as well. Meetings can be locked so that only legitimate participants can join the meeting. Amazon Chime is less suited in case you want meeting transcripts as well for your meetings. Given that Amazon Chime is not used by a larger audience so your client or customer may face some difficulties in join the meeting or accessing some of the features of the Chime.
We used Amazon Chime with our teleconferences, most of the time with external clients. It is not widely used across the whole org but by a few departments.
Pros
Cost effective
Easy integration with other calendar like Gmail
Setup is easy
No need to download desktop application
Mobile app is available
Cons
Not user friendly .Some options are confusing sometimes.
Look and feel is not so catchy
Only basic features are available in web version
Likelihood to Recommend
It's lacking mainly in UX design. Not so user-friendly and catchy. It's a good option to do the conferencing quickly without thinking much about desktop app download.
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)
It is being used to communicate with Amazon as they are a customer. They will only work with us using this specific tool. It is being used by our Support and Solutions Architect teams. It is annoying because Amazon will only allow us to have video calls with them using this tool.
Pros
Sound quality.
Cons
Screen sharing.
Lagging video.
Bad UX design.
Likelihood to Recommend
If you don't have to pay for it, then it's fine. But the overall experience of this product is very clunky and not up to same level of quality as other video tools.
We use Amazon Chime for communicating with the teams internally as well as having meetings with Aws consultants. The software is great tool for collaborating the designs and techniques which can be used to speed up the process. It helps in managing meetings effortlessly and also let you know who accepted it or will be late for the meeting.
Pros
Scheduling meeting effortlessly
Integrates well with calendar
great tool for collaboration
Cons
support on different browsers
takes a bit to load
Screen sharing sometimes lag
Likelihood to Recommend
Great tool which can be used for collaborating and sharing screens. It helps in integrating with calendar effortlessly and send invitations for the meeting. Sometimes it takes time to load the application on your device and is not compatible with all browsers. It has different options of muting and sharing screen during presenting.
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)
We use it to connect basically to AWS Team and AWS Partners. It's solving a communication preference of use Amazon Chime as [a] primary communication option with these companies, but it's not exactly a business problem, it's just the fastest option. It's being used by some departments, like IT and others.
Pros
Audio/video settings
Mute other people
Schedule management
Cons
Constantly being updated
Need to be opened to start/complete the update process
It opens the main window over others, to update
Likelihood to Recommend
If you live in AWS World, Amazon Chime is a great option. It's complete, and the audio/video settings are great. Even manage your schedule directly from the tool. But, its update process, is weird and [bothers] me every time that it begins, cause it opens the update window over other windows, without asking.
VU
Verified User
Technician in Information Technology (51-200 employees)
Amazon Chime was our go-to software for scheduling and attending corporate and departmental meetings weekly, quarterly, and annually. Moreover, Amazon Chime was in various ways; For Example, I used Amazon Chime to create a meeting within my department so training within my department can be done efficiently. Amazon Chime solves major business problems such as anyone from the company can use their accounts to create a meeting for any reason, most of the time with Amazon Chime I was able to solve issues such as getting on a quick on the spot meeting to clear out any issues within our organization and move on with our daily duties.
Pros
Chat tools, video calls, on spot meeting invite[s] easy to create and use.
Ability to record any meeting and automatically downloads the meeting recording after ending the meeting.
UI is clean and easy to navigate around Amazon Chime.
Ability to invite outside guests easily using Amazon Chime without any issues.
Cons
No easy way to sync up with Google calendar using Amazon Chime, a user would need to click on the google calendar link and then copy the Amazon Chime link to be able to sync up.
Ability to have on-screen live captioning, that would be great.
[The] ability to create Polls and video calls do not have the ability to blur background images and or create custom background images.
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon Chime is well suited for users that consists of a small group of people, for organizations that are more than 50 ppl Amazon Chime is a little lagging on the point where the ability to sync with google contacts, and calendar. Amazon Chime does have [it's] good and bad, but for sure Amazon Chime can solve the needs where a user needs to connect with a team or group right away to business issues or personal projects resolved. Amazon Chime great for video conferencing, live chat, creating meetings and etc.
