Google Workspace and Amazon WorkMail compete in the enterprise email and collaboration tools category. Google Workspace seems to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive collaboration features and broader integration capabilities.
Features: Google Workspace offers scalability, affordability, and integration with platforms, suitable for businesses familiar with Gmail. Its collaboration tools like Google Drive and Hangouts ensure dependable service, especially for mobile device integration and real-time document sharing. Amazon WorkMail provides a robust managed solution setup with impressive scalability and AWS service integration.
Room for Improvement: Google Workspace users report frequent logouts, integration issues with Outlook, and occasional service outages. Amazon WorkMail needs better scalability, technical support, and improved user interfaces, with limited regional service availability and challenging advanced features.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Google Workspace is known for efficient public cloud deployment and versatile scaling options but suffers from limited direct customer support, relying on forums and tutorials. Amazon WorkMail offers flexible deployment across cloud models with quick response customer service, though advanced technical support is sometimes inadequate.
Pricing and ROI: Google Workspace's pricing is perceived as slightly high but offers comprehensive feature integration, noted for competitive pricing against Microsoft products with discounts for educational institutions. Amazon WorkMail is viewed as costly relative to its features, despite a startup-friendly free tier. The ROI for both is strong with productivity enhancements, though WorkMail's costs may overshadow these benefits.
Amazon WorkMail is a secure, managed business email and calendar service with support for existing desktop and mobile email client applications. Amazon WorkMail gives users the ability to seamlessly access their email, contacts, and calendars using the client application of their choice, including Microsoft Outlook, native iOS and Android email applications, any client application supporting the IMAP protocol, or directly through a web browser. You can integrate Amazon WorkMail with your existing corporate directory, use email journaling to meet compliance requirements, and control both the keys that encrypt your data and the location in which your data is stored. You can also set up interoperability with Microsoft Exchange Server, and programmatically manage users, groups, and resources using the Amazon WorkMail SDK.
Similar to G Suite, all Google Workspace plans provide a custom email for your business and include collaboration tools like Gmail, Calendar, Meet, Chat, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Sites, and more.
As we’ve evolved G Suite into a more integrated experience across our communication and collaboration tools, we’ve rebranded to Google Workspace to more accurately represent the product vision.
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