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. 

AWS has its own collaboration functions and platforms – such as Chime and WorkDocs – but these aren’t as high-profile as others in the market. Amazon also announced the acquisition of encrypted messaging platform Wickr earlier this week. 

The companies named in the report declined to comment to Business Insider. 

 

 



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