Amazon and Slack Join Forces

Source: Business Wire & CNBC Published: June 2020

Source: Business Wire & CNBC
Published: June 2020

Amazon and Slack Join Forces

Circulated: June 5, 2020

Slack is a business communication and collaboration platform that “makes work life simpler, more pleasant, and more productive.”

Under a deal announced yesterday:

• Amazon employees will have access to Slack’s workplace collaboration tools

• Slack will revamp its video-calling feature to take advantage of Amazon Chime

• Slack will pay AWS at least $425M over a five-year period

• Developers will have the ability to manage 175+ AWS services within Slack