Amazon Quick Arrives Inside Microsoft 365: How Agentic AI Works Across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook

On August 13, 2026, AWS announced general availability of Amazon Quick extensions for Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, putting its agentic AI assistant directly inside the Office apps rather than requiring users to work in a separate tool . The launch positions Amazon Quick as a direct competitor to Microsoft Copilot, running on the same ribbon and offering a similar agentic editing experience—but grounded in AWS-connected enterprise data sources rather than Microsoft Graph .

Agentic functionality by app

AWS emphasizes that these are agentic editors, not just chatbots that answer questions .

• Word — The assistant can find and replace text, insert sections, and reformat content directly in the open document from a persistent side panel. Every edit is captured as a before-and-after visual comparison with selectable references back to the source content .
• Excel — The agent retrieves and formats data from cloud storage, data warehouses, Quick Sight, Salesforce, or SharePoint in a single step, and can explain formulas and trace their dependencies across worksheets .
• PowerPoint — It generates slides programmatically using the organization's own slide masters, layouts, fonts, and color schemes. Users can define a theme in one interaction and build out a narrative over several more .
• Outlook — The assistant reads subject, sender, recipients, and thread history of the message being reviewed, drafts replies with that context attached, and can flag, categorize, move, and summarize messages. Each email thread gets its own persistent conversation .

Conversation history persists across sessions in all four apps .

Deployment and authentication

• There is no client-side installation. The extensions run in the cloud via the Microsoft 365 add-in model .
• Administrators deploy them through the Microsoft 365 admin center using a standard manifest, or individual users can install from the Microsoft add-in store. Updates ship automatically either way .
• Outlook caveat: Because most organizations restrict Graph API permissions, the Outlook extension typically requires tenant-wide Microsoft Graph consent and admin deployment for full inbox, calendar, and contact capabilities .
• Authentication uses Quick's native model and does not require an Entra ID app registration .
• Data stays within the customer's selected region; available in seven AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland, London, Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Sydney, Tokyo) .

Pricing

Amazon Quick offers four subscription tiers. The Microsoft 365 extensions are included at no extra cost for customers on Plus, Professional, or Enterprise plans .

Plan	Price	Infrastructure fee	Key notes
Free	$0/user/month	None	Does not include browser or Microsoft 365 extensions
Plus	$20/user/month (annual billing)	None	Includes browser and Microsoft 365 extensions; no AWS account needed
Professional	$20/user/month	$250/account/month	Adds governance, Quick Sight dashboard viewing, 4 agent hours/month
Enterprise	$40/user/month	$250/account/month	8 agent hours/month, dashboard creation, multi-step workflow automation

Additional agent hours on paid plans are metered at $3/hour. A 30-day Enterprise trial waives subscription fees for up to 25 users and the infrastructure fee .

Competitive positioning vs. Microsoft Copilot

This launch makes Amazon Quick the most direct competitor to Microsoft 365 Copilot, sitting on the same Office ribbon and offering comparable agentic editing capabilities . The key differentiators:

• Data grounding: Quick pulls from an organization's existing Quick environment—including AWS data sources, Quick Sight dashboards, Salesforce, Jira, Slack, and SharePoint—rather than being limited to Microsoft Graph .
• Multi-cloud: Quick already integrates with Google Workspace, Zoom, Airtable, Dropbox, and Microsoft Teams, making it a vendor-agnostic alternative to Copilot . As AWS puts it, the assistant works "whether you use Slack or Teams, Outlook or Gmail" .
• Pricing: Quick's Plus plan ($20/user/month, no infra fee) undercuts Microsoft 365 Copilot's typical per-user pricing, though the Professional and Enterprise tiers add a $250/account infrastructure fee that changes the economics for larger deployments .