Amazon Chime SDK meetings is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) Region

Amazon Chime SDK now offers WebRTC meetings with API endpoints in the Africa (Cape Town) Region. With this release, Amazon Chime SDK developers can add one-to-one and group meetings with real-time audio and video to web and mobile applications from the Africa (Cape Town) Region. This release also includes the ability to connect clients to audio and video media hosted in the Africa (Cape Town) Region.

When creating meetings applications with Amazon Chime SDK, developers call API endpoints to create, update, and delete one-to-one and group meetings. The region selected for the API endpoint can impact the latency for API calls and helps control the location of meeting data, since the region is also where meeting events are received and processed. Developers using the Africa (Cape Town) Region API endpoints to create and manage Amazon Chime SDK meetings must also use the same AWS region for media because Africa (Cape Town) is an opt-in region. Developers using any of the other available control regions to create and manage their meetings can also opt-in so they can host the media for the meeting in the Africa (Cape Town) Region. Developers can opt-in to use the Africa (Cape Town) Region by opting-in through their AWS account.