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AWS and Slack integrate as rivalry with Teams intensifies
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Updated onOctober 4, 2023
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AWS andSlackrecently announced an expansion of partnership on cloud technologies and workforce collaboration tools. Microsoft’s Azure is Amazon Web Services’ chief rival, while Slack takes onTeams.
Their rivalry just soared a notch higher with the latestannouncement.
AWS and Slack join hands to thwart Teams
Amazon and Slack hope to expand their enterprise customer base with collaboration on technologies like AWS.
Slack will be leveraging Amazon Chime, an AWS-based business communications service.
It’s not difficult to see what Slack is going for here—the global reach, availability, and low-latency benefits of the AWS infrastructure.
“Slack and AWS will strategically partner to help distributed development teams communicate and become more efficient and agile in managing their AWS resources from inside Slack. Slack will migrate its Slack Calls capability for all voice and video calling toAmazonChime.”
They key integrations the two companies announced are:
Competing with Teams is no walk in the park for Slacks
Competing with Microsoft is always a daunting task, especially if the competitor is a smaller company like Slack.
Slack’s strategy involves cranking up third-party app integrations to cater to all the needs of its enterprise customers. On the other hand, Microsoft’sOffice 365, which powers Teams, is a one-stop shop with unrivalled breadth and depth.
In other words, for pretty much any single thing Slack brings in from outside,Teamscan get it internally.
For example, as Slack integrates with AWS Chatbot, Teams has the Azure bot service at its disposal.
That’s not to say the Slack’s strategy is not working. Instead, it means that Slack has to worry about things like extra costs that come with all these third-party app integrations.
Nonetheless, Slack should be fine if any new partnerships don’t result in extra costs for its customers.
So, what do you think about AWS /Slack integration? Feel free to let us know in the comments section below.
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