Sunday, 1 February 2015

Amazon Launches WorkMail Preview

On Wednesday, Amazon unveiled a new cloud-based business email and calendar service - Amazon WorkMail - to take on Microsoft's office space.

Developed by Amazon's cloud computing business unit, Amazon Web Services, WorkMail allows users to send and receive emails, manage contacts, and share calendars and can be integrated with mobile devices and existing email clients. "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 Vice President of AWS Compute Services Peter De Santis in a statement on the email client. "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."

"This managed email and calendaring solution runs in the Cloud. It offers a unique set of security controls and works with your existing desktop and mobile clients (there's also a browser-based interface). If your organization already has a directory of its own, WorkMail can make use of it via the recently introduced AWS Directory Service. If not, WorkMail will use Directory Service to create a directory for you as part of the setup process," explained Amazon's Jeff Barr on the AWS blog. "WorkMail was designed to work with your existing PC and Mac-based Outlook clients including the prepackaged Click-to-Run versions. It also works with mobile clients that speak the Exchange ActiveSync protocol." Amazon is offering a 30 day free trial of WorkMail for up to 25 users. The free trial includes 50 GB of email storage per employee and a mailbox migration tool. Following the free trial, Amazon WorkMail will be available for $4 a month for a 50 GB mailbox or $6 per month for a WorkMail and WorkDocs bundle. Amazon WorkMail launched in preview in Northern Virginia and Ireland on Wednesday. Users can sign up for the Preview online though the finished product is expected to launch in Q2 2015.

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