Amazon is plotting a “rebel alliance” to take on Microsoft in the collaboration space, according to Business Insider.
The e-commerce giant, which holds the largest share of the public cloud infrastructure through AWS, reportedly wants to grow in collaboration and has held talks with several key vendors in the space.
Citing people familiar with the situation, Business Insider reported that Amazon has held talks with Dropbox, Slack, Smartsheet and others about creating a bundle of services to take on Microsoft 365. Microsoft is growing in the infrastructure space with Azure and has taken a chunk out of the collaboration market with Teams. Microsoft was also recently declared the second biggest UCaaS vendor globally.
Discussions are said to have been taking place for over a year, with no final decision made on whether a formalised bundle will materialise.
The potential collaboration is reportedly dubbed a “rebel alliance” internally at AWS.
