Amazon Quick AI assistant launches inside Microsoft 365

Amazon Web Services Amazon.com, Inc. ↘ 0.80% announced on Wednesday that its Amazon Quick AI assistant is now generally available inside Microsoft ↗ 0.90% Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, embedding agentic AI capabilities directly into the productivity suite used by millions of enterprise workers.

An Agent, Not a Chatbot

The extensions, which run on both desktop and web versions of Microsoft 365, go beyond conversational AI. AWS describes them as "agentic" — meaning the assistant takes action within open documents rather than simply answering questions in a chat window.aws.amazon

In Word, the agent can find and replace text, insert sections, and reformat content from a persistent side panel, with every edit captured as a before-and-after snapshot in an audit trail. In Excel, it retrieves data from cloud storage, data warehouses, and business applications in a single step and can explain formulas and trace their dependencies across worksheets. The PowerPoint extension generates slides using an organization's own templates, fonts, and color schemes, while the Outlook extension drafts contextual replies with full thread awareness and can flag, categorize, and summarize messages.unite+1

The extensions connect to an organization's existing Quick environment, inheriting configured knowledge bases and integrations including QuickSight dashboards, Salesforce, Jira, Slack, and SharePoint.unite

Deployment and Pricing

There is no client-side installation required. Administrators can push the extensions to targeted users through the Microsoft 365 admin center using a standard manifest, while individual users can install them from the Microsoft add-in store. The one exception is Outlook, which typically requires admin approval for full functionality because most organizations restrict Graph API permissions.windowsforum+1

Authentication uses Quick's native model and does not require an Entra app registration, reducing setup complexity for IT teams.aws.amazon

The extensions carry no additional licensing for customers on Quick's Plus ($20 per user per month), Professional, or Enterprise ($40 per user per month) plans. AWS is also offering a 30-day Enterprise trial that waives subscription fees for up to 25 users.unite

Competitive Context

The launch places AWS's assistant on the same Office ribbon as Microsoft's own Copilot, which Microsoft recently consolidated into a single app across its productivity suite. The move represents a distribution play as much as a product one: Quick's value rests on the breadth of enterprise data it can pull into a task, and Microsoft 365 is where much of that task-level work happens. The extensions are available across seven AWS regions with full data residency controls.aws.amazon+1

The Microsoft 365 extensions were first introduced in preview in April 2026 for Excel, PowerPoint, and an updated Word extension. Wednesday's announcement marks their transition to general availability.aws.amazon