Business Productivity

In 2017, Amazon Chime released incoming web-hooks, allowing users to send automated messages into Chime chat rooms. Today, we take chat integrations a step further, announcing the availability of bi-directional chat bot support. With chat bots, users can send and receive information from custom-built bots in Chime chat rooms. When many people think of chat […]

Starting today, Alexa device users can join meetings using their existing Alexa devices at home or work by saying “Alexa, join my meeting”! This feature is available for all Alexa users for a limited time, even if their organization does not use Alexa for Business yet. Just say “Alexa, join my meeting” to get started! […]

AWS delivers effortless communication for Amazon Chime customers Delivering flexible options that you and your colleagues can use to stay connected and get work done. In 2017, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched Amazon Chime on Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android devices. Customers raved about the ability to instantly join meetings and engage in chat conversations […]

Amazon WorkDocs is a fully managed, secure content creation, storage, and collaboration service that allows user to access their content from anywhere on any device. Amazon WorkDocs Drive provides access to user’s cloud content directly from Windows Explorer and Mac Finder.  The  ‘WorkDocs Drive Offline Access’ feature ensures your WorkDocs cloud content is available regardless […]

After the initial launch of Amazon Chime, one specific question that we were frequently asked by our customers was if Chime would one day support letting users connect directly to the public switched telephone network (PSTN). With the release of Amazon Chime Business Calling and Amazon Chime Voice Connector, that day has arrived! Business Calling […]

If you host meetings with attendees outside of your company, you know how disruptive it can be sometimes when your attendees have trouble joining your meeting. It might be because they are unfamiliar with your conferencing solution, or they join only to find that they cannot access critical features, like screen sharing. The Amazon Chime […]

  It’s our favorite time of year at AWS! It’s the excitement of knowing that after the holiday dining is done, we fly to Las Vegas to meet with you! re:Invent provides us a great opportunity to hear from you and share with you what we’re working on. Amazon Chime is one of the newer […]

Amazon WorkDocs is a secure, fully managed, content creation, file collaboration and management service, with an extensible SDK, that runs on AWS. Amazon WorkDocs makes it easy for you to share your files anytime anywhere, and we have now made it even easier to manage files on your iOS device. You can now view and […]

Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint files are some of the most commonly uploaded and shared files in Amazon WorkDocs. In the past, you had to use Microsoft Office desktop applications to create or edit Office documents and then upload and share the latest versions in WorkDocs. Now, the Open with Office Online feature […]

Amazon WorkDocs is a secure, fully managed file collaboration and management service. In addition to direct user access from various devices, you can use the WorkDocs API to develop applications that offer more documentation functions to meet your business needs. In this blog post, we demonstrate how to use the WorkDocs API with the AWS […]