Amazon Takes On Microsoft, Google With WorkMail For Businesses

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @12:27PM from the new-mail dept.

alphadogg writes Amazon Web Services today launched a new product to its expansive service catalog in the cloud: WorkMail is a hosted email platform for enterprises that could wind up as a replacement for Microsoft and Google messaging systems. The service is expected to cost $4 per user per month for a 50GB email inbox. It's integrated with many of AWS's other cloud services too, including its Zocalo file synchronization and sharing platform. The combination will allow IT shops to set up a hosted email platform and link it to a file sharing system.

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Link to Amazon's official announcement by cetialphav · 2015-01-28 14:49 · Score: 3, Interesting

Here is the link to Amazon's official announcement so you don't have to go through the networkworld article.
It is notable that this is not just about email as it also supports many of the other features offered by Outlook like calendaring, tasks, etc. It also works with existing Outlook and ActiveSync clients so it is easy for an enterprise to start using it.
As I'm not an administrator of mail systems, I would like to hear from some experts about how the features Amazon has introduced today compare to the existing enterprise offerings.