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'It's like having a Home Depot attached to your house.' 'What's come out for the journey has been a real understanding that with the purchase, we're getting access to fabulous innovation tools,' Chris Foster, CIO of TC Energy, told Business Insider. While TC first started using the service last year, it has increased its usage eightfold in past months, including for onboarding students for its annual summer internship program which started in May. The energy company TC Energy, which has been using AWS's products since 2017, says that WorkSpaces helped it get its entire workforce working from home earlier this year since it allows employees to do work from their own desktop devices at home. Amazon itself has been creating 5,000 new WorkSpaces per week for its employees in past months. Now, employees can use WorkSpaces to access all the necessary internal applications on their first day of work while they wait for a laptop to be shipped to them. In normal times, employees would simply get a pre-setup work laptop on their first day. WorkSpaces has also seen 'significant growth' during the pandemic - including by Amazon itself - to onboard employees remotely during the pandemic, Kelly said. Slack will undoubtedly help that business a lot.' WorkSpaces help customers work from home 'When I think of the Chime business, I think of it as both the meetings and applications experience as well as the underlying SDK elements. 'I think it's going to help our business,' he said. The recent Slack partnership also puts AWS in a 'great position' for more customers to use Chime, Kelly believes.

'While we've been seeing growth with Chime, where we've seen most acceleration is use of the Chime SDK,' Kelly said.ДЇor example, healthcare company CareMonitor used it to build an application that allows patients to log health information like their blood pressure and communicate with caregivers, while fitness company Mindbody used it to build an app for personal trainers to run online classes.

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As one analyst recently put it to Business Insider: 'I cannot recall attending a Chime meeting that wasn't related to or hosted by Amazon.'ДЄWS has seen more growth in Chime's software development kit, which allows developers to build apps using Chime's features, than with the video tools on their own. While AWS declined to provide usage numbers for Amazon Chime, it's almost certainly less widely used than its major videoconferencing rivals like Zoom ( 300 million daily meeting participants), Microsoft Teams ( with 75 million daily active users), and Google Meet ( 100 million daily meeting participants). The Slack partnership will 'undoubtedly help' Amazon Chime Kelly declined to share growth numbers for Chime, Connect, or Workspaces. 'I think we have a strong position.'Д¬hime, too, just signed on a big customer: AWS announced a partnership with messaging company Slack in early June where Slack will use Chime's voice and video abilities, while Amazon employees start using Slack. 'We've seen a tremendous amount of growth in these businesses with all our customers,' Kelly said, adding that Amazon is a 'core part' of the work-from-home movement.

Kelly says that two AWS apps have flourished in the past few months: Connect and WorkSpaces.Д¬onnect allows employees to set up a call center for support and customer service, while WorkSpaces helps employees easily set up a desktop when working remotely.

Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.ДЄs Zoom, Microsoft, and Google have seen a flood of new users for their chat and videoconferencing apps during the coronavirus pandemic, Amazon's Chime seems to have missed out on skyrocketing growth.Д«ut that doesn't mean that Amazon has missed out on the remote work boom in general, says Eron Kelly, general manager of compute infrastructure and applications at Amazon Web Services.

Here's how customers like TC Energy and Direct Interactions use AWS's remote work apps.

Meanwhile, AWS announced a partnership with Slack that would allow Slack to use Chime's voice and video tools, which the exec says will 'undoubtedly help' Chime's business.

The remote desktop service WorkSpaces and call center software Connect have both seen surging growth, an exec says, though he declined to share usage stats.

While Amazon's videoconferencing app Chime isn't as widely used as competing products Microsoft Teams and Zoom, the company has two other apps that are boosting its remote work business.

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