Amazon Looks To Break Into Email Services Space With WorkMail
- Published in Industry News
Amazon Web Services, an Amazon.com company, announced the launch of Amazon WorkMail, an enterprise email and calendaring service designed to give users an email option that does not require hardware or complex email server software. The announcement puts Amazon in contention with Microsoft and Google as they attempt to make foothold in the workplace.
The services are designed to replace the technology behind corporate email in data centers. Therefore, WorkMail users will be able to keep using Microsoft Outlook, for example, but be able to use their WorkMail login and use all the similar functionality.
Other features include:
- Amazon WorkMail works with Microsoft Outlook or can be accessed through a feature-rich Web client on the most popular browsers, including Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer;
- Mobile device compatibility for the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync protocol, including iPad, iPhone, Kindle Fire, Fire Phone, Android, and Windows Phone; and
- Users can share and work together on documents through an integration with Amazon WorkDocs (formerly Amazon Zocalo).
“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,” said Peter De Santis, VP of Amazon Web Services. “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.”