Zoom Announces Strategic Partnership with AWS as Preferred Cloud Provider

The declaration follows that Zoom would be moving a segment of its cloud infrastructure to Oracle Cloud because of a phenomenal flood in new clients following the declaration of lockdown limitations recently.

Reported in late April, the arrangement saw Oracle join significant cloud rivals AWS and Microsoft Azure in offering help to Zoom. Nonetheless, AWS figured out how to hold the greater part of the outstanding burden, and it appears to be its endeavors have not gone unnoticed.

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan credited AWS with helping the platform manage “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,” he said.

“Looking forward, we will continue to innovate alongside AWS to reinvent virtual collaboration and deliver secure and exciting experiences for our customers.”

Commenting on the announcement of the extended multi-year agreement, AWS CEO Andy Jassy said that “COVID-19 changed everything for Zoom, putting demands on the company to meet the video conferencing needs of hundreds of millions of new participants around the globe”.

About Zoom:

Zoom helps businesses and organizations bring their teams together in a frictionless environment to get more done. Our easy, reliable cloud platform for video, phone, content sharing, and chat runs across mobile devices, desktops, telephones, and room systems.