![]() ![]() The move to Amazon Chime for Slack voice and video calls is also a significant part of the deal. “The vast majority of our service has always run on AWS.” Armstrong says it’s “not likely” that Slack will be looking to use Azure in the future. “We have not used Azure,” says Brad Armstrong, vice president of business and corporate development at Slack, in an interview with The Verge. The deal means it’s unlikely we’ll see Slack turn to Microsoft’s Azure cloud services or Google Cloud to power parts of its service in the foreseeable future. While Slack has long used AWS to power parts of its chat app, it’s now committing to using Amazon’s cloud services as its preferred partner for storage, compute, database, security, analytics, machine learning, and future collaboration features. Up until today, Slack’s biggest customer has been IBM, which is rolling out Slack to its 350,000 employees. It’s not immediately clear how many of Amazon’s 840,000 employees will be using Slack, though. ![]() The deal comes just as Slack faces increased competition from Microsoft Teams, and it will also see Slack migrate its voice and video calling features over to Amazon’s Chime platform alongside a broader adoption of Amazon Web Services (AWS).Īmazon’s roll out of Slack to all of its employees is a big part of the deal, thanks to an enterprise-wide agreement. ![]() Slack is partnering with Amazon in a multiyear agreement that means all Amazon employees will be able to start using Slack.
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