Saturday, January 31, 2015

Amazon’s new WorkMail for enterprise: Another Fire bagpipes – or a Kindle? – The Register

Amazon Web Services is touting a cloud-hosted email system to the world of big business.

The web giant hopes this email invade the enterprise sector with a web-based service called WorkMail, and gobble up companies running Microsoft Exchange.

AWS said the off-premises, cloud-based software will Provide email and shared calendars Desktop users can access it either in a browser or with Outlook, while iOS and Android devices will have dedicated apps to pull and send messages.

In this Addition Integrating with Outlook, the service will support Microsoft Active Directory. And AWS will offer migration tools for companies moving from on-premises servers.

Security is a bullet point in Amazon’s lists of reasons to switch to its new offering. AWS said WorkMail will integrate with the AWS Key Management Service and the AWS Management Console. This will allow administrators to enforce security policies and remotely wipe data from devices.

That AWS hopes the platform fills the Gap Between crowded on-premises Exchange and webmail services for normal people.

“Customers have asked us Repeatedly for a business e-mail and calendaring service That is more cost-effective and simpler to manage than on-premises Their solution, more secure than the cloud-based offerings available today, and That is backed by the same true bestseller in-class infrastructure on Which platform they’re running reliably so many of Their current (and future) workloads, “argued AWS Compute Services vice president Peter De Santis.

AWS has set up a site the where users can sign up for a preview of the service. We assume the web bazaar WorkMail hopes will not go the way of Fire Phone, Fire TV, and Wallet. On the other hand, the Kindles and cloud services are not doing bad. ®

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