WorkMail, the cloud-based email and calendar platform that constitutes Amazon’s answer to Microsoft Exchange and Google Apps, has entered general availability, with new features to boot.
Amazon first announced WorkMail in January 2015. It pitched the offering as an easy way to set up email and calendaring services, with a focus on security.
WorkMail does not provide all of the features of Google and Microsoft’s cloud-based apps — there’s no word processor, for example — but it competes in the most important categories. It also offers some traits not available from other services, like a dead-simple way to host email on a custom domain name.
And, unsurprisingly, WorkMail features easy integration with other Amazon cloud products.