Slack and Amazon are joining hands to take on Microsoft; here’s what it means for users

Slack is partnering with Amazon to take on Microsoft, even Google to an extent. Slack has signed a multi-year agreement with Amazon which will entail two big developments. For one, the largely business-centric communication platform will fully embrace Amazon Web Services (AWS), going forward, in addition to switching to Amazon Chime for voice and video calling. Secondly, all Amazon employees will now use Slack, at least, professionally.

Slack had been relying on AWS to power its chat app previously, but the new Amazon partnership means it will adopt it in a much broader context. From storage to database, from compute to security, so on and so forth.