Amazon Put a Copilot Rival Inside Office
AWS shipping into Microsoft's own applications, for free, deserved more coverage than it got.
Founder, Automation Squad ·
The short answer
Amazon Quick for Microsoft 365 became generally available on August 13, 2026, putting agentic editing into Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. It uses your organisation's existing Quick knowledge bases and connectors, deploys cloud-side through the M365 admin center with nothing installed on user machines, and carries no additional licensing cost on Plus, Professional or Enterprise plans.
What it does in each Office app, and what it costs
Straight capability list, because the interesting question is not whether it works but whether you are already paying for it.
Find out whether your organisation already pays for Quick
This is the whole decision. On Plus, Professional or Enterprise plans there is no additional licensing for the M365 extensions — so if Quick is already in your stack, this is a capability you own and are not using.
Check which of your connectors come across
It inherits your existing Quick knowledge bases and connectors — QuickSight, Salesforce, Jira, Slack, SharePoint. The value is proportional to how much you have already connected, so audit that before judging it.
Confirm your region is covered
Seven regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland, London, Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Sydney, Tokyo). If your data residency requires somewhere else, this is a short conversation.
Deploy to a pilot group through the M365 admin center
It deploys cloud-side, with nothing installed on user machines — which makes a pilot genuinely cheap to run and cheap to reverse.
Test it against the job you actually hate
The PowerPoint case is the strongest on paper: slides generated on your company template that reference live QuickSight or Salesforce numbers. If that works on a real deck, it is worth more than the rest combined.
| Where | What the agent can do |
|---|---|
| Word | Find and replace, insert sections, reformat, with visual change tracking |
| Excel | Pull external data, clean formatting, flag anomalies |
| PowerPoint | Generate slides on company templates; reference QuickSight or Salesforce metrics |
| Outlook | Thread-aware replies, manage recipients, attachments, categorisation |
| Connectors inherited | QuickSight, Salesforce, Jira, Slack, SharePoint |
| Deployment | Cloud-side via M365 admin center — nothing on user machines |
| Extra licensing | None on Plus, Professional or Enterprise |
| Regions | N. Virginia, Oregon, Ireland, London, Frankfurt, Sydney, Tokyo |
Take it with you
AMAZON QUICK FOR MICROSOFT 365 — GA Aug 13, 2026
Source: https://automationsquad.com/news/amazon-quick-microsoft-365/
THE POINT
No additional licensing on Plus, Professional or Enterprise plans.
If your org already has Quick, you already own this.
WHAT IT DOES
Word ........ find/replace, insert sections, reformat, visual change tracking
Excel ....... pull external data, clean formatting, flag anomalies
PowerPoint .. generate slides on company templates; can reference
QuickSight dashboards or Salesforce metrics
Outlook ..... thread-aware replies, recipients, attachments, categorisation
INHERITS YOUR EXISTING CONNECTORS
QuickSight · Salesforce · Jira · Slack · SharePoint
DEPLOYMENT
Cloud-side via the M365 admin center. Nothing installed on user machines.
REGIONS
N. Virginia · Oregon · Ireland · London · Frankfurt · Sydney · Tokyo
CHECKLIST
[ ] Do we already pay for Quick? (Plus / Professional / Enterprise)
[ ] Which of our connectors carry over?
[ ] Is our region covered?
[ ] Deploy to a pilot group via M365 admin center
[ ] Test on ONE real deck referencing live numbersAWS moved Amazon Quick's Microsoft 365 extensions from preview to general availability on August 13, 2026, putting agentic editing and connected-data access directly inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
The facts, from AWS's announcement: in Word the agent can find and replace text, insert sections and reformat with visual change tracking. In Excel it pulls external data, cleans formatting and flags anomalies. In PowerPoint it generates slides on company templates and can reference QuickSight dashboards or Salesforce metrics. In Outlook it drafts thread-aware replies and manages recipients, attachments and categorisation. It inherits the organisation's existing Quick knowledge bases and connectors — QuickSight, Salesforce, Jira, Slack, SharePoint — and deploys cloud-side through the Microsoft 365 admin center with nothing installed on user machines. There is no additional licensing for Plus, Professional or Enterprise plans. Seven regions are covered: N. Virginia, Oregon, Ireland, London, Frankfurt, Sydney and Tokyo.
Automation Squad's take: the headline that got missed is that Amazon shipped a Copilot competitor into Microsoft's own applications and did not charge for it. For any organisation already paying for Quick, this is not a purchasing decision at all — it is a capability sitting unused behind an admin toggle. That framing matters more than the feature list, because the usual barrier to trying something like this is procurement, and here there isn't one. The PowerPoint capability is the most credible of the four: slide generation on your own template, referencing live dashboard numbers, is the specific task where generic AI output has always fallen down for lack of access to the real figures.
Run this now: find out whether your organisation already has Amazon Quick on a Plus, Professional or Enterprise plan. If it does, deploy the M365 extensions to a small pilot group through the admin center — it installs nothing locally, so reversing it costs nothing. Then test the case that is hardest to fake: ask it to build a short deck on your company template that references real numbers from a connected source, and see whether the figures are right and the template survived.
Questions people are asking
- Does Amazon Quick for Microsoft 365 cost extra?
- No additional licensing on Plus, Professional or Enterprise plans. If your organisation already subscribes to Quick at one of those tiers, the Microsoft 365 extensions are included.
- Do users have to install anything?
- No. It deploys cloud-side through the Microsoft 365 admin center, which also makes a pilot easy to reverse.
- Which data sources can it reach?
- It inherits your organisation's existing Quick knowledge bases and connectors, including QuickSight, Salesforce, Jira, Slack and SharePoint.
- Which regions is it available in?
- Seven: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland, London, Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Sydney, Tokyo).
Further reading
- AWS — Amazon Quick for Microsoft 365 — Full capability breakdown per application, plus the deployment model.
Last checked August 13, 2026 against the primary sources above, by Automation Squad Research. Spot an error? [email protected].