“Not to mention: it involves complex development cycles that are hard to scope or build.”īuilt on resilient AWS infrastructure, Amazon Chime SDK live connector is elastic, cost-effective, and scalable.

It is, though, a time-consuming and expensive process – typically. They also want a place to connect with customers and other stakeholders who cannot attend that annual developer conference, where they unveil their latest innovations. With the introduction of its live connector feature – developers can: securely send video and add their live streaming capabilities. He notes that for them – adding live streaming capabilities typically introduces long and costly development cycles that are hard to estimate and allocate in appropriate infrastructure.Īs enterprises swiftly jump on the trend of streaming events on live streaming forms, hoping to connect with millions of potential or extremely targeted viewers – they hope to drive engagement. He acknowledged the cumbersome nature of pulling off this task for developers however. “As the hybrid work environment becomes the new normal: live streaming has had to fill in for remote workers and audiences as a way to watch and engage.” Rao hopes this will be to the advantage of most companies, telling me: Combined, they have billions of global users. With just a few lines of code, Amazon Chime SDK users can send a live cast to a range of platforms like YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch, Facebook Live, LinkedIn Live, Periscope, and Instagram Live.

The platform, according to Statista, boasts an impressive 30 million daily active users and 140 million monthly active users – as of 2022. In April 2022, video conferencing giant, Zoom made a similar move, adding the ability to live stream from the popular streaming app – Twitch. I sat down with Sid Rao, GM of Amazon Chime SDK, to chat about the newly-available functionality that enables its users easily add live-streaming capabilities to web and mobile apps. This includes messaging, audio, video, and screen-sharing capabilities to web and mobile applications. ‘Live connector’ is set to enable organizations that leverage the AWS solution for internal/external workplace collaboration and communication.Ĭompanies like Mitel, Slack, and Blackboard all leverage the SDK to enhance various aspects of their real-time communications. AWS recently announced the general availability of live connector – a feature now available via the Amazon Chime SDK (software development kit).

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