Slack Technologies Gains an 800-Pound Ally Against Microsoft

Slack Technologies (NYSE: WORK) recently signed a new multiyear enterprise deal with Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN). Slack will start using Amazon Chime for voice and video calls, and increase its usage of AWS (Amazon Web Services) for additional storage, compute, database, security, machine learning, and analytics tasks.

Amazon will allow all its employees to start using Slack. It's unclear how many of Amazon's 840,000 employees will use Slack right away, but it could replace IBM (NYSE: IBM) -- which rolled out Slack to its 350,000 employees earlier this year -- as Slack's top customer.

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