Collaboration · AWS
Slack
AWS-native messaging backbone on horizontally sharded MySQL via Vitess, with a job queue and Kafka. Slack AI search/summarization is built on Anthropic models under a Salesforce trust boundary.
Foundation proximity: Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)
Foundational models & how they consume them
PrimaryClaude· AWS Bedrock · Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)
Cloud & datastore
AWSMySQL (Vitess)KafkaCompliance
SOC 2HIPAAFedRAMPFINRASimilar companies
MiroOthers that build on Anthropic · Claude
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FAQ
Does Slack use a foundational AI model?
Slack uses Claude (Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)).
What cloud does Slack run on?
Slack runs on AWS.
What database does Slack use?
Slack uses MySQL (Vitess), Kafka.
How close does Slack run to the foundational model?
Slack is Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure) — further out, trading control for convenience.
Sources
slack.com ↗Also on the map
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