--- description: Amazon deliveries go from electronics to emails title: Amazon Wants to Power Your Work Email image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt412a6290a4c427ce/69877c86e20a877626a84cb7/460308440.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Amazon Wants to Power Your Work Email by [Sam Frizell](/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 29, 2015 4:00 PM CUT  A picture shows the logo of the online retailer Amazon dispalyed on computer screens in London on December 11, 2014. A picture shows the logo of the online retailer Amazon dispalyed on computer screens in London on December 11, 2014.Leon Neal—AFP/Getty Images by [Sam Frizell](/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 29, 2015 4:00 PM CUT Amazon has launched a work email service aimed at undermining Microsoft’s dominance in office messaging. The e-commerce giant [is introducing WorkMail](http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2011466 "undefined"), allowing users to send and receive emails, and manage contacts and share calendars all stored on Amazon’s cloud servers. [WorkMail](http://aws.amazon.com/workmail/ "undefined") won’t replace Microsoft Outlook’s software interface for businesses that make the switch. Instead, it changes the background technology that powers corporate email. It will push messages through Amazon’s encrypted computer networks at a monthly cost of $4 per inbox. Amazon said that with WorkMail customers won’t have to buy servers or manage software, upgrades, or patches. Instead, they just have to pay for each inbox. “Customers have repeatedly asked us for a business email and calendaring service that is more cost-effective and simpler to manage than their on-premises solution,” said Peter De Santis, vice president of AWS Compute Services, said in a press release. “We built Amazon WorkMail to address these requests.” An analyst with Baird Equity Research, Colin Sebastian told [the Wall Street _Journal_](http://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-starts-selling-an-email-service-to-companies-1422468169 "undefined") that email services could bring Amazon $1 billion each year, based on estimate of sales for Google’s business software. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3687549/amazon-work-email/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3687549/amazon-work-email/"},"headline":"Amazon Wants to Power Your Work Email","datePublished":"2015-01-29T16:00:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:04:16.754Z","description":"Amazon deliveries go from electronics to emails","url":"https://time.com/3687549/amazon-work-email/","keywords":["Tech","Amazon","Companies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt412a6290a4c427ce/69877c86e20a877626a84cb7/460308440.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Frizell","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt412a6290a4c427ce/69877c86e20a877626a84cb7/460308440.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"BRITAIN-BUSINESS-RETAIL-AMAZON","caption":"BRITAIN-BUSINESS-RETAIL-AMAZON","creditText":"Leon Neal—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3687549/amazon-work-email/","name":"Amazon Wants to Power Your Work Email"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"See The Unique Way Amazon Ships This Teddy Bear","description":"Go Behind the Scenes at Amazon to see how the products you buy make it to the shipping truck","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/IY8KG0y3/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-12-01T04:19:45.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/IY8KG0y3.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3687549/amazon-work-email/","duration":"PT2M54S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3687549/amazon-work-email/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```