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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