{"id":108314,"date":"2020-06-07T12:02:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T19:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/slacks-new-integration-deal-with-aws-could-also-be-about-tweaking-microsoft"},"modified":"2020-06-07T12:02:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T19:02:50","slug":"slacks-new-integration-deal-with-aws-could-also-be-about-tweaking-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/slacks-new-integration-deal-with-aws-could-also-be-about-tweaking-microsoft","title":{"rendered":"Slack\u2019s new integration deal with AWS could also be about tweaking Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/slacks-new-integration-deal-with-aws-could-also-be-about-tweaking-microsoft.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slack.com\">Slack<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/amazon.com\">Amazon<\/a> announced a big integration late yesterday afternoon. As part of the deal, Slack will use <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/amazon\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" >Amazon<\/a> Chime for its call feature, while reiterating its commitment to use AWS as its preferred cloud provider to run its infrastructure. At the same time, Amazon has agreed to offer Slack as an option for all internal communications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome parts of Amazon had licensed <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/slack\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" >Slack<\/a> before, but this is the first time it will be offered as an option to all employees,\u201d an Amazon spokesperson told TechCrunch.<\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake, this is a big deal as the SaaS communications tool increases its ties with <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/aws\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" >AWS,<\/a> but this agreement could also be about slighting Microsoft and its rival Teams product by making a deal with a cloud rival. In the past, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield has had choice words for Microsoft saying the Redmond <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/10\/24\/stewart-butterfield-says-microsoft-sees-slack-as-existential-threat\/\">technology giant sees his company<\/a> as an \u201cexistential threat.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slack and Amazon announced a big integration late yesterday afternoon. As part of the deal, Slack will use Amazon Chime for its call feature, while reiterating its commitment to use AWS as its preferred cloud provider to run its infrastructure. At the same time, Amazon has agreed to offer Slack as an option for all [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}