Workmail email application test distributors Amazon against Gmail and Outlook. AWS is the best Workmail webmail for your business?
email services online are getting cheaper and easier to implement for companies that want to spend your email in the cloud and keep employees connected while working in the movement.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) entered the market and more people for email early 2015 with Workmail cloud-based - another extension to its growing portfolio of software and services enterpise - before making general available in the region EU in early 2016.
With Workmail, users can access their account through Microsoft Outlook, a native application on your Internet browser, or through iOS and Android messaging applications.
But with a number of cloud services email already established available, AWS can compete with the likes of Microsoft and Google? (For more information on the best email provider for your business, visit our room:
AWS Workmail: Features
Workmail is ready to promote its integrated security features, which are consistent with those of most AWS services. Encryption is administered by the Key Management Service AWS and all data is encrypted automatically "at rest" through their own encryption keys. Data in transit is encrypted using industry standard SSL.
There is an easy to use option to decide which area you want your data stored in, contributing to latency and compliance issues.
These assurances have not stopped some commentators expressing concern about how Amazon manage its data for e-commerce, or if you are asked to surrender to the police communications. This is of particular concern that the investigative powers of the bill proposed by Parliament this year.
In comparison, Gmail offers similar guarantees encryption, some certificates of compliance tools and management for verification and access control. Outlook only provides security features for corporate compliance and quality, as encryption, levels E3 and E5 company and Microsoft does not automatically encrypts emails.
Workmail is optimized for mobile, with system administrators with the ability to enforce device encryption requires locking devices, specify security requirements password, and wipe devices remotely using the management console AWS.
AWS Workmail: Web client
The Web client itself is very similar to that of rivals Gmail and Outlook.
The look and feel is extremely simple, with regular input tray, Outbox, sent and deleted items that appear on the left side of the page. Workmail more like Gmail feature-rich in this regard, including a system based on a folder to organize your inbox and tabs for calendar and contacts from Outlook system.
Workmail integrates naturally with WorkDocs too, so that teams can collaborate on documents much like Google Drive and Microsoft SharePoint. There is also an integrated calendar function that is in line with competing services.
