AWS, with its global server farms, is the backbone of the commercial web.
(Neither Amazon nor Slack returned requests for comment early Thursday morning).įor one thing, it’s easy to see why Amazon would want to add a popular corporate communications tool to its suite of offerings to Amazon Web Services customers, Amazon’s widely used cloud-computing platform. But Amazon’s possible interest also signals some clear ways of thinking about how the company wants to position itself in the future. Remember, Amazon is not just an online retailer Amazon Web Services is already a major force in the corporate world. So in the broader sense, the idea that Amazon is flirting with a Slack takeover is just another chapter in the Office Wars of Silicon Valley. Even for Silicon Valley’s most formidable companies, a multibillion-dollar acquisition isn’t taken lightly. Instead, it launched a competing collaborative group-chat service called Teams in November. ( The Atlantic has used the platform since 2014.) Last year, Microsoft was considering scooping up Slack for itself. It’s quite popular in American newsrooms-including at The Washington Post, which the Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos owns.
As of last year, Slack claimed 77 Fortune 100 companies among its clients. It now has about 5 million daily users, including more than 1 million paying users.
The startup has enjoyed extraordinary growth since its 2013 debut. It’s no surprise that tech giants have taken interest in Slack, with its elegant, user-friendly interface that keeps employees ever-connected to work via their smartphones. A deal could give Slack a valuation of $9 billion, according to a report from Bloomberg. The deal will allow Slack to build on this offering by taking advantage of AWS infrastructure.Amazon is rumored to be mulling a purchase of Slack, the fast-growing corporate chat platform. Revealed in May, the updated zones allow Slack customers to select from a greater number of regions in Europe to help them store their data locally and fulfil compliance requirements. Slack will also use AWS's global infrastructure to support enterprise customers adopting its platform, making use of the recently announced data residency. "By integrating AWS services with Slack's channel-based messaging platform, we're helping teams easily and seamlessly manage their cloud infrastructure projects and launch cloud-based services without ever leaving Slack." "The future of enterprise software will be driven by the combination of cloud services and workstream collaboration tools," said Stewart Butterfield, CEO and co-founder of Slack. The agreement will see 'Slack Calls', it's service for all voice and video calling, integrated into Amazon's video conferencing platform Chime, a service that has similar call functions to Microsoft Teams.
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