Amazon steps on Microsoft’s toes with 'simpler' email service 'WorkMail'
Amazon has launched a new cloud-based email and calendaring service in a bid to tackle Microsoft’s dominant share of workplace communications.
The e-commerce giant claims that the new service, called WorkMail , offers users a more simplified way for users to email, manage contacts, share calendars and book resources. It is compatible with client software like Outlook and provides end to end encryption for users.
The system, created by Amazon Web Services (AWS), will cost users $4 a month but will come with 50GB of cloud space for subscribers. Furthermore, it can also be integrated with mobile devices enabling employees to access documents and workplace content from home.
Peter De Santis, vice president, AWS Compute Services, said: “Customers have repeatedly asked us for a business email and calendaring service that is more cost-effective and simpler to manage than their on-premises solution, more secure than the cloud-based offerings available today, and that is backed by the same best-in-class infrastructure platform on which they’re reliably running so many of their current (and future) workloads.
“We built Amazon WorkMail to address these requests and to help businesses achieve agility and cost savings by letting AWS manage the non-differentiated heavy lifting involved in corporate email and calendaring.”
On why the firm created the service, Adam Selipsky, Amazon Web Services executive, told the Wall Street Journal: “Customers are not happy with their current email solution. A lot of customers feel those solutions are expensive and complex.”
The feature will be launched later this year.
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