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Amazon Web Services has released a new way for enterprise customers to use its Quick AI assistant. On Thursday, the company announced that a desktop version is now generally available, offering another way to use it beyond the browser. This app also gives the AI more context by pulling in work-related information stored on the worker’s machine.
In addition, AWS has debuted a new activity feed for Quick’s iOS and Android apps, one that’s informed by a worker’s Slack conversations and messages, emails, meeting invites, and more.
First introduced in October 2025 as Amazon Quick Suite before rebranding as Amazon Quick, it’s an agentic teammate designed to answer work questions and turn insights into actions on the worker’s behalf. Marketed as being a suite of capabilities, the AI automates tasks, analyzes data, builds web applications, and can even conduct research.
Amazon Quick functions similarly to the enterprise versions of Microsoft’s Copilot and Google Gemini. However, as GeekWire noted, AWS lacks a native productivity platform like other hyperscalers—Microsoft has Microsoft 365, and Google has Google Workspace—but that could be the appeal. For companies that prefer a “do-it-yourself” approach and don’t want to be locked into an ecosystem, Amazon Quick may be the better fit. The AI assistant already connects with Atlassian, Box, Canva, HubSpot, Notion, Salesforce, Shopify, Slack, Zoom, and thousands of other apps and data sources.
“Enterprise IT organizations face a compounding problem: the tools your teams need to stay productive are multiplying, and so is the shadow AI risk that comes with them,” AWS said in a blog post. “When people work around approved systems to get things done faster, governance breaks down, data leaves controlled environments, and IT loses visibility.” Amazon Quick is being positioned as an AI assistant that acts as the glue across the apps and agents an organization uses, powered by infrastructure IT teams are comfortable with and already use. Data and conversations reportedly remain private, and auditing is done through Amazon CloudWatch and AWS CloudTrail. It’s also HIPAA-, FedRAMP-, SOC 2-, and ISO 27001-compliant.
But Amazon Quick’s desktop app comes as the AI assistant space becomes increasingly crowded. Last month, Glean unveiled Glean Tau, its desktop app designed to provide similar capabilities. Offerings from model makers, such as Anthropic’s Claude Cowork and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Work, are also rivals.
Though today’s news may appeal more to enterprise customers, anyone can use Amazon Quick. AWS offers five subscription tiers: free, Plus, Max, Professional, and Enterprise.
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