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US online giant Amazon is likely to launch cloud-based email and calendar service to business mostly in plan to beat Microsoft outlook.

This service of Amazon work mail users to send and receive email, manage contacts, share calendars, and book resources using the same email applications they use today" including Outlook and services like Google Apps.

This is will be for the corporate customers like who are using the Microsoft Outlook and another service. Amazon, offering the service through its cloud unit Amazon Web Services, will charge $4 per user per month and include 50 gigabytes of mailbox storage for each user.

The service may be jointly delivered by Amazon WorkDocs and storage service will be having previously known as Zocalo.

"Customers have repeatedly asked us for a business email and calendaring service that is more cost-effective and simpler to manage than their on-premises solution, more secure than the cloud-based offerings available today, We built Amazon WorkMail to address these requests and to help businesses achieve agility and cost savings." said Peter De Santis, vice president at Amazon Web Services.

AW: Arun Kumar