Amazon Chime SDK SIP Integration

How to integrate Amazon Chime SDK Voice Connector with Vapi

This guide walks you through setting up both outbound and inbound SIP trunking between Amazon Chime SDK and Vapi using a Voice Connector.

This is a Voice Connector-only integration — inbound and outbound calls work with no Lambda functions or custom logic required. Vapi handles the AI assistant entirely. This approach is best for straightforward AI assistants on a phone number where no additional integration is needed.

This integration does not support passing custom SIP headers, metadata, or enriched escalation data (e.g., human transfer with SIP header context). For those use cases, use a SIP Media Application with CallAndBridge instead.

Prerequisites

An AWS account with access to the Amazon Chime SDK console
A Vapi account with a private API key
AWS CLI configured, or access to the Chime SDK console
A phone number provisioned in Amazon Chime SDK (or the ability to order one)
A Vapi assistant already created (for inbound calls)

Outbound calls (Chime SDK to Vapi)

Chime SDK configuration

Create a Voice Connector

In the Amazon Chime SDK console, navigate to Voice Connectors and create a new one.

Configure the following settings:

Encryption: Enabled (default)
Network Type: IPV4_ONLY

Create Voice Connector

Save the Outbound host name from the Voice Connector details — you need it when configuring the Vapi SIP trunk.

Enable termination and whitelist Vapi IPs

Navigate to the Termination tab of your Voice Connector and enable it.

Add Vapi’s static IP addresses to the allowed host list:

Whitelist IP 1

Whitelist IP 2

44.229.228.186/32
44.238.177.138/32

Configure calling plan

In the Termination tab, scroll to the calling plan section and select the countries you want to allow outbound calls to.

Create credentials

Still in the Termination tab, create a new credential with a username and password. Save these credentials — you need them for the Vapi SIP trunk configuration.

Create Credential

Assign phone numbers

Navigate to the Phone numbers tab and click Assign from inventory to attach a phone number to this Voice Connector.

Phone Numbers Tab

Select the phone number you want to assign and confirm.

Assign Phone Number

If you don’t have any phone numbers in your inventory, order them from Amazon Chime SDK → Phone Number Management → Orders → Provision Phone Numbers.

Vapi configuration

Retrieve your Vapi API key

Create a SIP trunk credential

Use the following API call to create a SIP trunk credential. Replace the placeholders with your Chime SDK Voice Connector details:

$ curl -X POST https://api.vapi.ai/credential \
> -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
> -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_VAPI_API_KEY" \
> -d '{
>   "provider": "byo-sip-trunk",
>   "name": "Chime SDK Trunk",
>   "outboundLeadingPlusEnabled": true,
>   "outboundAuthenticationPlan": {
>     "authUsername": "YOUR_CHIME_CREDENTIAL_USERNAME",
>     "authPassword": "YOUR_CHIME_CREDENTIAL_PASSWORD"
>   },
>   "gateways": [
>     {
>       "ip": "YOUR_CHIME_OUTBOUND_HOSTNAME",
>       "outboundEnabled": true,
>       "outboundProtocol": "tls/srtp",
>       "inboundEnabled": false,
>       "optionsPingEnabled": true
>     }
>   ]
> }'

Note the id (credential ID) from the response for the next step.

The outboundProtocol must be set to tls/srtp when encryption is enabled on the Voice Connector (the default).

Register your phone number

Associate your Chime SDK phone number with the Vapi SIP trunk:

$ curl -X POST https://api.vapi.ai/phone-number \
> -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
> -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_VAPI_API_KEY" \
> -d '{
>   "provider": "byo-phone-number",
>   "name": "Chime SDK SIP Number",
>   "number": "YOUR_CHIME_PHONE_NUMBER",
>   "numberE164CheckEnabled": true,
>   "credentialId": "YOUR_CREDENTIAL_ID"
> }'

Note the phone number ID from the response for making calls.

The phone number must be in E.164 format (e.g., +18312168445).

Make outbound calls

You can make outbound calls in two ways:

Using the Vapi Dashboard:

The phone number appears in your dashboard. Select your assistant and enter the destination number you want to call.

Using the API:

$ curl -X POST https://api.vapi.ai/call/phone \
> -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
> -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_VAPI_API_KEY" \
> -d '{
>   "assistantId": "YOUR_ASSISTANT_ID",
>   "customer": {
>     "number": "DESTINATION_PHONE_NUMBER",
>     "numberE164CheckEnabled": false
>   },
>   "phoneNumberId": "YOUR_PHONE_NUMBER_ID"
> }'

Inbound calls (Chime SDK to Vapi)

For inbound calls, a caller dials your Chime SDK phone number. The Voice Connector routes the call to Vapi through its origination settings — no Lambda or SIP Media Application required:

Vapi configuration

Create a SIP trunk credential

Vapi needs to know which IP addresses are allowed to send SIP traffic to it. Since the Voice Connector originates calls from its regional signaling IPs, you must register those IPs as a BYO SIP trunk credential in Vapi.

Look up the SIP signaling subnet for your Voice Connector’s region from the Chime SDK Voice Connector network configuration docs.

Create the credential via the Vapi API:

$ curl -X POST https://api.vapi.ai/credential \
> -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
> -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_VAPI_API_KEY" \
> -d '{
>   "provider": "byo-sip-trunk",
>   "name": "Amazon Chime SDK Trunk",
>   "gateways": [
>     {
>       "ip": "YOUR_VOICE_CONNECTOR_SIGNALING_IP",
>       "netmask": 24,
>       "inboundEnabled": true,
>       "outboundEnabled": false,
>       "outboundProtocol": "tls/srtp",
>       "optionsPingEnabled": true
>     }
>   ]
> }'

Replace the ip and netmask with the values for your Voice Connector’s region. For example:

US West (Oregon): 99.77.253.0 with netmask 24
US East (N. Virginia): 3.80.16.0 with netmask 23

Set outboundProtocol to tls/srtp if your Voice Connector has encryption enabled (the default), or udp if not.

Save the returned id — this is your Credential ID used in the following steps.

Register a phone number and assign your assistant

$ curl -X POST https://api.vapi.ai/phone-number \
> -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
> -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_VAPI_API_KEY" \
> -d '{
>   "provider": "byo-phone-number",
>   "name": "Chime SDK Number",
>   "number": "YOUR_CHIME_PHONE_NUMBER",
>   "numberE164CheckEnabled": true,
>   "credentialId": "YOUR_CREDENTIAL_ID",
>   "assistantId": "YOUR_ASSISTANT_ID"
> }'

The number field must exactly match the E.164 phone number assigned to your Voice Connector (e.g., +18312168445). Inbound calls will fail to route if the numbers don’t match.

Chime SDK configuration

Configure origination on the Voice Connector

Navigate to your Voice Connector’s Origination tab and set Origination status to Enabled.

Enable Origination

Click New to add an inbound route pointing to Vapi’s SIP server:

Host: YOUR_CREDENTIAL_ID.sip.vapi.ai
Port: 5061 (for encrypted connections)
Protocol: TCP

Create Inbound Route

Test the integration

Call your Chime SDK phone number from any phone. The call routes through the Voice Connector’s origination settings to sip.vapi.ai, where your Vapi assistant answers.

To debug issues, enable SIP logging on the Voice Connector (under the Logging tab) for detailed SIP message traces.

Next steps

Now that you have Amazon Chime SDK SIP trunking configured:

SIP trunking overview: Learn more about SIP trunk concepts and configuration options.
Networking and firewall: Review network requirements and firewall rules.
Troubleshoot SIP trunk credential errors: Debug common SIP integration issues.

$	curl -X POST https://api.vapi.ai/credential \
>	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
>	-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_VAPI_API_KEY" \
>	-d '{
>	"provider": "byo-sip-trunk",
>	"name": "Chime SDK Trunk",
>	"outboundLeadingPlusEnabled": true,
>	"outboundAuthenticationPlan": {
>	"authUsername": "YOUR_CHIME_CREDENTIAL_USERNAME",
>	"authPassword": "YOUR_CHIME_CREDENTIAL_PASSWORD"
>	},
>	"gateways": [
>	{
>	"ip": "YOUR_CHIME_OUTBOUND_HOSTNAME",
>	"outboundEnabled": true,
>	"outboundProtocol": "tls/srtp",
>	"inboundEnabled": false,
>	"optionsPingEnabled": true
>	}
>	]
>	}'

$	curl -X POST https://api.vapi.ai/phone-number \
>	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
>	-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_VAPI_API_KEY" \
>	-d '{
>	"provider": "byo-phone-number",
>	"name": "Chime SDK SIP Number",
>	"number": "YOUR_CHIME_PHONE_NUMBER",
>	"numberE164CheckEnabled": true,
>	"credentialId": "YOUR_CREDENTIAL_ID"
>	}'

$	curl -X POST https://api.vapi.ai/call/phone \
>	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
>	-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_VAPI_API_KEY" \
>	-d '{
>	"assistantId": "YOUR_ASSISTANT_ID",
>	"customer": {
>	"number": "DESTINATION_PHONE_NUMBER",
>	"numberE164CheckEnabled": false
>	},
>	"phoneNumberId": "YOUR_PHONE_NUMBER_ID"
>	}'