AWS Zoom “Bride”
Zoom announces new strategic agreement with AWS. But that’s not the only novelty: the new partnership includes a collaboration aimed at developing new solutions for teleworking.
On November 30, Zoom announced a new strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services.
The multi-year agreement extends the long-standing relationship between the two companies, enabling Zoom to rapidly scale its service to the world’s leading cloud, address the challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, and provide reliable services and continuous innovation for its expanding base of enterprise and consumer customers.
Zoom will continue to leverage AWS’s global infrastructure and unmatched portfolio of services, including compute, storage, content delivery, and security capabilities, to create a secure and seamless extension of its data centers.
In addition, AWS and Zoom are collaborating to develop new solutions for Zoom’s business users, leveraging the breadth and depth of AWS to integrate Zoom services with Amazon devices and capabilities to make it easier for organizations to run hybrid office and remote work models.
“We’ve been able to manage [la domanda] a significant portion by running the substantial majority of our workloads in the cloud on our preferred provider, AWS, and relying on its performance and scalability,” said Zoom CEO Eric Yuan. “Looking to the future, we will continue to innovate with AWS to reinvent virtual collaboration and provide secure and exciting experiences for our customers.”
Paying the price for this situation is Oracle, which had provided a lifebuoy to Zoom in April, when the demand for the service was such that it did not seem possible that AWS would provide enough servers to meet it.
However, Amazon’s commitment to strengthening its infrastructure seems to have provided it with a significant advantage over Oracle, which on the contrary is not able to offer such widespread distribution globally, which is why Zoom chose it instead of its competitor.
