AWS has brought its Amazon Quick assistant directly into Microsoft 365, announcing on August 13, 2026 that extensions for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook are now generally available to Quick customers. The launch, detailed in an AWS Machine Learning Blog post, puts the company’s agentic AI inside the productivity apps where enterprise users already spend their day, rather than asking them to work in a separate tool.
The four extensions run on both desktop and web versions of Microsoft 365. Customers on Quick’s Plus, Professional, or Enterprise plans get access with no additional licensing, according to AWS. The extensions connect to an organization’s existing Quick environment, inheriting its configured knowledge bases, data sources, and integrations, including Quick Sight dashboards, Salesforce, Jira, Slack, and SharePoint.
The launch is a distribution move as much as a product one. Quick’s value proposition rests on the breadth of connected enterprise data its agent can pull into a task, and Microsoft 365 is where much of that task-level work happens. Shipping as a native add-in puts AWS’s assistant on the same ribbon as Microsoft’s own Copilot, which Microsoft recently consolidated into a single app across its productivity suite.
An Agent That Edits, Not a Chatbot That Answers
AWS is positioning the extensions as agentic rather than conversational. In Word, the assistant can find and replace text, insert sections, and reformat content, working directly on the open document from a persistent side panel. Every edit is captured as a before-and-after snapshot, rendered as a visual comparison in the chat panel or as an audit trail link, with each change carrying a selectable reference back to the affected content.
In 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. The PowerPoint extension generates slides programmatically using the organization’s own slide masters, layouts, fonts, and color schemes, supporting multi-step workflows where a user defines a theme in one interaction and builds out a narrative across several more. In Outlook, the assistant reads the 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, so switching between threads preserves what was discussed in each.
Conversation history persists across sessions in all four apps, AWS says.
Deployment Runs Through the Microsoft 365 Admin Center
There is no client-side installation. The extensions run in the cloud, and an administrator can push them to targeted users and groups through the Microsoft 365 admin center using a standard manifest, the same mechanism used for any Office add-in. Individual users can alternatively install from the Microsoft add-in store, and updates ship automatically either way.
Outlook is the exception on deployment: because most organizations restrict Graph API permissions, the Outlook extension typically requires admin approval for full functionality, and AWS advises planning on admin deployment for it. Authentication uses Quick’s native model and does not require an Entra app registration. On the Free and Plus plans, users can sign in with enterprise credentials or through social login.
The extensions are available across seven AWS regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). Data stays within the customer’s selected region, and AWS says the backend infrastructure runs fully isolated with no public egress.
What Access Costs
AWS’s Quick pricing page lists four subscription tiers. The Free plan costs nothing; Plus runs $20 per user per month billed annually, with no infrastructure fee, and includes browser and Microsoft 365 extensions. Professional, which requires an AWS account, is $20 per user per month plus a $250 per account per month infrastructure fee, adding governance controls, Quick Sight dashboard viewing, and four agent hours per month. Enterprise doubles the per-user price to $40, keeps the same $250 infrastructure fee, and expands to eight agent hours per month plus dashboard creation and multi-step workflow automation. Additional agent hours on the paid organizational plans are metered at $3 per hour.
A 30-day trial of the Enterprise plan waives the subscription fee for up to 25 users and the infrastructure fee for the account.
The launch post states the extensions carry no additional licensing requirement for customers on Plus, Professional, or Enterprise plans. The pricing page ticks the extensions feature on the Plus column among email-signup plans, and on both paid AWS-account tiers; the Free plan’s column does not show the browser and Microsoft 365 extensions row checked. Prospective users on the Free tier should confirm extension eligibility before building around it.
The Quick Line, Extended Into Office
Quick is the product line AWS built out of Amazon QuickSight last October, expanding what had been a standalone business intelligence service into a broader assistant spanning research, automation, and app building, with the BI capability continuing inside it under the Quick Sight name. The product page pitches it as an AI companion that connects to thousands of apps and data sources and turns conversations into finished documents, presentations, and spreadsheets.
The Microsoft 365 extensions extend that environment rather than replace it: they attach to the Quick instance a customer has already configured, respect existing permissions and security policies, and make the same Spaces, dashboards, and integrations available inside Office without additional setup. For organizations already running Quick, the four extensions are installable now from the Quick download page or through admin-center deployment; for everyone else, AWS is routing signups through the 30-day Enterprise trial.
