Slack Partners with Amazon to Take on Microsoft Teams
Jun. 5, 2020Slack has signed a multi-year agreement with Amazon. As part of the partnership,Slack will use Amazon’s infrastructureto step up its service, andAmazon employees will primarily use Slack at work.
The technical integrations through this partnership include four main aspects:
Slack, which recently also rolled out anew design, will use Amazon’s Chime for audio calls, video calls, and screen sharing in calls. Switching to Amazon Chime is believed to drastically improve the overall calling experience in the platform.
The company will also integrate AWS Chatbot and Amazon AppFlow into its platform. For the uninitiated, AWS Chatbot uses an interactive agent to keep teams in the loop with the latest developments.Amazon will provide Slack users access to more than 175 AWS servicesthrough AWS Chatbot.
Amazon AppFlow, on the other hand, is a service that users can utilize tosecurely transfer data between Slack and AWS servicessuch as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Redshift.
“Strategically partnering with AWS allows both companies to scale to meet demand and deliver enterprise-grade offerings to our customers. By integrating AWS services with Slack’s channel-based messaging platform, we’re helping teams easily and seamlessly manage their cloud infrastructure projects and launch cloud-based services without ever leaving Slack,”said Stewart Butterfield, CEO, and co-founder of Slack.
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