Amazon Interactive Video Service now includes web and mobile SDKs for IVS stream chat

Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) now provides SDKs for stream chat with support for web, Android and iOS. The Amazon IVS stream chat SDKs support common functions for chat room resource management, sending, and receiving messages, and managing chat room participants. Visit the Amazon IVS chat documentation to learn more. Using the Amazon IVS stream chat SDKs incurs no additional charges beyond standard Amazon IVS usage costs.

Amazon IVS stream chat is built for large scale, real-time messaging conversations and handles the natural variation in message volume without customers needing to manage the underlying infrastructure. With this feature, customers can build chat into their web and mobile applications to drive engagement with thousands of users at once.

Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) is a managed live streaming solution that is designed to be quick and easy to set up, and ideal for creating interactive video experiences. Send your live streams to Amazon IVS using the broadcast SDKs or standard streaming software such as Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) and the service is designed to provide everything you need to make low-latency live video available to any viewer around the world, letting you focus on building interactive experiences alongside the live video.

The Amazon IVS console and APIs are available in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (Ireland) regions. Video ingest and delivery are available around the world over a managed network of infrastructure optimized for live video.