
“Strategically partnering with AWS allows both companies to scale to meet demand and deliver enterprise-grade offerings to our customers,” Butterfield said. In a statement, Slack co-founder and CEO Steward Butterfield said the future of enterprise software will be driven by cloud services and collaboration tools. Read Next: Slack Unveils Redesign, New Simplicity Features

“We look forward to working with Slack to expand the ways we can help our customers innovate in the cloud.” “AWS customers gain a powerful new means of managing their AWS resources that will help teams collaborate and build more applications using the broadest and deepest set of cloud services,” Jassy said. Slack will continue to use AWS as its preferred cloud provider and will use a range of services offered by the cloud computing giant including storage, compute, database, security analytics and machine learning.Īlso, AWS employees will use Slack as the tech giant’s enterprise communication and collaboration tool, landing Slack another big customer in addition to IBM.ĪWS CEO Andy Jassy in a statement said the companies are giving developer teams the ability to collaborate and innovate faster on the front end while giving them the ability to efficiently manage their back end cloud infrastructure.

Slack is also leveraging Amazon’s global infrastructure to support the rapid adoption of its platform and to offer customers the ability to choose which country or region their data is stored.

Workplace productivity and collaboration platform Slack and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have announced a new integration and multi-year partnership to develop enhanced enterprise workforce collaboration solutions.Īs part of the multi-faceted deal, Slack will migrate its Slack Calls capability for all voice and video calls to Amazon Chime, AWS’s enterprise communications service.
