[HN Gopher] Amazon Chime End of Life Feb/2026
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       Amazon Chime End of Life Feb/2026
        
       Author : shaicoleman
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2025-02-19 20:56 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | bigfatkitten wrote:
       | I had mostly forgotten Chime exists, and I'm guessing most of
       | Amazon's customers had too. The only time I've ever used it was
       | to talk to people working at AWS.
        
       | RadiozRadioz wrote:
       | Anybody else see this coming a mile off? This had all the
       | hallmarks of a large corporate trying to enter a random market
       | just for the sake of it.
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       | When I first encountered Chime, my first thought was "Why?".
       | There was no differetiating factor, they had the same features as
       | everybody else, so there was no justification for the product
       | existing. It was just Amazon's lame implementation of the same
       | tool you already use.
        
         | toomuchtodo wrote:
         | Many AWS customers are large, lazy enterprises with inertia and
         | many competing interests/silos internally. AWS gets their hooks
         | in (ReInvent marketing, "innovation" buy in, etc), and well,
         | you spend where it is easy to spend: AWS, as they're already
         | onboarded as a vendor. The product doesn't have to be better,
         | the spend just has to show up at the same accounts payable
         | department.
        
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