The partnership is in addition to Slack’s cloud contract with AWS, for which Slack will pay AWS $425 million over a five-year period until April 2025.Īccording to CNBC, Slack has run its service on AWS since 2014 and has depended on Amazon for servicing additional demand arising due to the pandemic.Īmazon is the second-largest private employer in the United States and has over 840,000 full-time and part-time employees, who would now be able to use Slack. In an announcement made Thursday, the two companies disclosed that Slack would deepen the use of AWS services. The collaboration between the two companies will help them better compete with Microsoft, whose Teams video-calling software is increasingly popular among companies and schools amid the ongoing pandemic. In return, Slack will utilize Amazon Web Services’ Chime software to underpin its own video-calling feature, reported CNBC. (NYSE: WORK) are forming a strategic partnership that will help the two companies take on Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) whose Teams video-calling software is also gaining popularity.Īmazon has licensed Slack, a work-oriented collaboration tool for the use of its employees.

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