Slack at the AWS Summit San Francisco Keynote, April 2017

Julia Grace, head of infrastructure engineering for Slack, describes how AWS has enabled Slack’s meteoric growth. Slack provides a messaging platform that unifies diverse communication services. Slack runs its platform on AWS and uses a wide range of cloud services, including Amazon Athena for analytics. Amazon Lex, now integrated with Slack, lets developers take advantage of advanced AI and machine learning capabilities without having to code complex algorithms.