I'm excited to share the latest Hotsock release, which supports storing messages for any duration you specify alongside a client HTTP API for querying message history in your channels.

Real-time functionality is a core expectation in modern applications. Whether you're building complex user interfaces, showing messages and typing indicators for a chat product, keeping player moves up-to-date in a collaborative game, or one of endless other multi-player use cases, instant feedback is crucial for a great user experience.

Implementing real-time features often requires integrating with a third-party service and dealing with fixed limits, difficult sales processes, and questionable or unstable SDKs. Plus, you're sending private data out of your systems to external providers that are potentially thousands of miles from you and your customers' geographic locations. And who knows, they might also be using your data to train their latest AI model. 🙄

Starting today, you can install a full-featured, real-time WebSockets service securely and privately in your own AWS account in any of the 22 supported commercial AWS regions around the world, with more regions to come in the future.