


Slack and AWS are expanding their product integrations to help developer teams more easily communicate and manage their AWS resources in Slack channels and Amazon Chime chat rooms. Slack, which yesterday said it added a record 90,000 new free and paid customers in the first quarter for a total of 750,000, will migrate its Slack Calls capability for voice and video calling to Amazon Chime, AWS’ unified communications service that allows users to meet, chat and place business calls. Under the extended partnership announced yesterday, San Francisco-based Slack and Seattle’s AWS – already Slack’s preferred cloud provider - are promising new solutions to improve enterprise workforce collaboration, the importance of which has heightened amid the increase in remote workers resulting from stay-at-home advisories and non-essential business closures forced by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

A new multi-year deal will see Slack Technologies leaning more heavily on Amazon Web Services and Amazon Chime for the operations of its cloud-based, workplace messaging and collaboration platform as they take on Microsoft Teams, Zoom Video Communications and Google Meet for more share of the enterprise market.
