


The deal will also shape Slack’s future development around Amazon’s more than 175 cloud-based services – which span the gamut of IT capabilities, from artificial intelligence (AI), and large-scale databases to security, mobile interfaces, blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT), game technology, and more.Ĭloud industry prepares for post COVID-19 pivot Slack will now substitute Chime for its own Slack Calls capability, which enables voice and video calls between members of project teams, and leverage AWS capabilities such as encryption key management, integration of AWS chatbot services into Slack, and more. The partnership, which was billed by the companies as “the future of the enterprise workplace”, will link the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Chime videoconferencing platform with popular Slack tools, which help teams work together on projects no matter where people are located. Chasing the red-hot enterprise collaboration market, cloud-computing giant Amazon will combine its videoconferencing and cloud services with team-collaboration tools from Slack in a challenge to Microsoft’s dominance that will also help Amazon lock in a key client for the long term.
