It's right there in the announcement.

> With Wickr, customers and partners benefit from advanced security features not available with traditional communications services – across messaging, voice and video calling, file sharing, and collaboration. This gives security conscious enterprises and government agencies the ability to implement important governance and security controls to help them meet their compliance requirements.

Wickr is going to be intertwined with AWS products so Amazon can sell them to "security conscious enterprises and government agencies."

The devil is in the details, and I’m mighty curious as to what those details end up looking like.

A great point. It's easy for an exec to say, "We should buy Wickr to make it easier to land government contracts." You still have to integrate Wickr in a way that makes sense and actually adds value.

Amazon is pushing hard into government services.

Wickr has a large contract already with the US military so I guess this closes a gap they needed closed.

Yep, and TBH if anyone has first hand experience with the importance of messaging app security it's their current CEO

> Wickr is great tech

Isn't it closed source? What is known about their tech?

It looks like some of the core parts aren't closed source (but definitely not open source). For example: https://github.com/WickrInc/wickr-crypto-c

A replacement for Chime?

Charge for it.