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Amazon isn’t one to shy away from taking bold steps and today it reiterated that resolve by launching a new email service, it comes under Amazon Web Services to be precise, and is initially geared towards business users only. Called WorkMail this email solution provides secure managed email and calendar that’s not essentially different than what Google and Microsoft offer.

Since the aim is to get businesses on this email service right now Amazon is touting WorkMail as a secure solution. It can use Amazon’s Key Management Service or KMS to encrypt data with keys managed by the customer. If customers don’t supply keys WorkMail data gets encrypted by KMS with a key from AWS.

Business users will also be given the option to decide where they would like to have their data stored. Its up to them if they want to select different locations due to regional compliance issues to simply because they crave lower latency.

AWS isn’t positioning WorkMail as a front-end product even though it has a web client which customers can use to access the service. Instead its going for integration with existing mail and calendar softwares like Outlook on Windows and Mail on OS X, as well as on mobile devices.

WorkMail accounts will cost businesses $4 per user per month and bring a 50GB mailbox for each account. The company hasn’t even hinted as yet if an iteration of this email service could one day be opened up for free to the general public.

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