following googles rolled out of matter support for a bunch of its smart devices amazon has announced it is bringing the latest smart home standard to 17 of its offerings this means that these 17 devices will be able to work in harmony with other matterenabled products from any company preferred by customers amazon said in a blog post that it has completed the first phase of matter rolloutread alsoamazon to breathe life into fantasy game warhammer 40000while commercial terms of the deal were not disclosed by londonlisted games workshop the move demonstrates amazons push to make the most of a streaming boom and take on rivals including hbo max and netflixtens of millions ofalexa customers across the globe now have more ways to connect their devices with the availability of matter over wifi spanning 17 different echo devices plugs switches and bulbs the company said as per the ecommerce giant it is rolling out matter support for the most common device types first it says that the company is continuing to work through interoperability stability and longevitytesting with their partners ensuring customers have a seamless and highquality experience with alexa17 amazon echo devices with matter supportthe first 17 echo devices that are getting matter support include echo dot 5th gen echo dot 5th gen with clock echo 4th gen echo dot 3rd gen 2018 release echo studio echo show 8 2nd gen 2021 release echo show 10 3rd gen echo show 5 2nd gen 2021 release echo show 15 echo dot gen 3 with clock echo dot gen 4 with clock echo show 5 echo v3 echo dot gen 4 echo input echo flex and echo show 8amazon also claims that currently there are more than 30000 works with alexa devices matter devices will work alongside existing smart home devices the first phase rollout is limited to wifi connectivity and android phones as well as smart plugs smart bulbs and smart switches the verge report sadding that thread and ios support should come next yearthread is a new networking protocol that makes it easier and faster for smart devices to connect to your home making matter work better it works alongside the home wifi network and makes connection more reliable and robust by creating a mesh networkgoogle brings matter support to nest devices androidlast week google announced that it started rolling out matter support to some smart products including the original google home speaker google home mini and google nest mini the nest audio all three nest hub devices first gen second gen and max and nest wifi prois chatgpt the google killer