There's a mutual win on the bot front with a combination of Slack, Amazon and AWS. Slack and Alexa combined with AWS' developer army could be a juggernaut on the AI front. Slack's AI could be helped with AWS knowhow and minimize the noise of its service. Slack adds screen sharing for video calls | Slack refines admin controls for guest access, profiles | Slack launches message menus in effort to boost workflow tools That Slack model could get a significant boost with Amazon's scale, infrastructure, and growing AWS sales team. Slack will build recurring revenue with enterprises and have a predictable model.

Slack is building its enterprise footprint nicely.AWS launches Amazon Connect, a cloud contact center as a service | How AWS' Chime, cloud business productivity apps play into Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud battle Slack could give AWS tools to occupy the higher end of a larger cloud stack. Rivals Google and Microsoft already have well known productivity and collaboration suites to tack on to broader cloud deals.

Amazon started with infrastructure as a service and is moving up to databases and has been building higher-end software as a service and productivity assets. Amazon's profits are driven by Amazon Web Services and that unit has disrupted the enterprise technology pecking order in the last decade.So, why would Amazon blow $9 billion on Slack? Here are a few reasons why it makes sense-and doesn't.

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