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The videoconferencing company Zoom has picked Amazon Web Services as its
preferred cloud provider, just months after forging a major partnership
with Oracle cloud to handle a “sudden spike” in video calls.
Zoom has used AWS since 2011 to power its very popular service, but under
this new multi-year agreement, the two companies will work more closely
together. The Zoom Rooms product, for example, will get new AI features
provided by the Alexa for Business assistant, building on the forthcoming
integration between Zoom and Amazon devices like the Echo Show smart
speaker.
“Faced with unprecedented global demand this past year, we’ve been able
to handle it in significant part by running the substantial majority of
our cloud-based workloads on our preferred cloud provider, AWS, and
relying on AWS’s performance and scalability,” Zoom CEO Eric Yuan said in
a statement. “Looking forward, we will continue to innovate alongside AWS
to reinvent virtual collaboration and deliver secure and exciting
experiences for our customers.” …
