Both the companies are adding advanced capabilities to aid users to work from home efficiently during this pandemic. Notably, Microsoft has recently joined forces with Slack. The latest move is likely to provide a competitive edge to Amazon against Microsoft MSFT and Alphabet’s GOOGL Google, which are also leaving no stone unturned to bolster its workspace software offerings. The adoption rate of cloud services and more importantly video conferencing tools has increased significantly owing to these COVID-19-induced restrictions. We believe the latest partnership holds promise in this coronavirus (COVID-19)-hit world where “stay-at-home” practices and social distancing have been made mandatory across offices worldwide. Notably, Amazon Chimethat allows users to meet, chat, and place business calls is a communications service of AWS. Slack Calls capability for all voice and video calling will be migrated to Amazon Chime as part of the deal.Audio, video, and screen-sharing capabilities in Slack Calls will be supported by Amazon Chime. The latest agreement aims at offering scalable, reliable and secured communication toenterprise customers by integratingSlack’s channel-based messaging solutioninto AWS’ infrastructure and security services.

We note that both the companies strive to aid management of AWS resources of the distributed development teams from inside Slack in order to enhance the enterprise workforce collaboration. The latest multi-year agreement between the company’s cloud computing unit - Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Slack Technologies WORK in a bid to offer integrated enterprise software tools is a testament to the same. Amazon AMZN is leaving no stone unturned to sustain momentum in the global cloud market on the back of its strength in cloud services offering.

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