{"id":41607,"date":"2020-12-01T10:33:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T10:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=3084de4352e3d0ddc582860b70f044de"},"modified":"2020-12-01T10:33:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T10:33:44","slug":"zoom-selects-aws-as-preferred-cloud-provider-over-oracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/zoom-selects-aws-as-preferred-cloud-provider-over-oracle\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoom selects AWS as preferred cloud provider over Oracle"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Sabina Weston<\/a><\/span>
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Zoom<\/a>\u00a0has announced plans to extend its strategic partnership with\u00a0Amazon Web Services (AWS)<\/a>, selecting it as its preferred\u00a0cloud<\/a>\u00a0provider.<\/p>\n

The announcement follows that Zoom would be shifting a portion of its cloud infrastructure to\u00a0Oracle Cloud<\/a>\u00a0due to an unprecedented surge in new users following the announcement of lockdown restrictions earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Announced in late April<\/a>, the deal saw Oracle join major cloud rivals AWS and\u00a0Microsoft Azure<\/a>\u00a0in providing support to Zoom. However, AWS managed to retain the bulk of the workload, and it seems its efforts have not gone unnoticed.<\/p>\n

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\nZoom CEO Eric Yuan credited AWS with helping the platform manage \u201cunprecedented global demand this past year\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve 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\u2019s performance and scalability,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cLooking forward, we will continue to innovate alongside AWS to reinvent virtual\u00a0collaboration<\/a>\u00a0and deliver secure and exciting experiences for our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Commenting on the announcement of the extended multi-year agreement, AWS CEO Andy Jassy said that \u201cCOVID-19 changed everything for Zoom, putting demands on the company to meet the\u00a0video conferencing<\/a>\u00a0needs of hundreds of millions of new participants around the globe\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cAWS was there from the beginning to ensure Zoom could scale to meet these new requirements virtually overnight,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

AWS has been a long-term cloud provider for Zoom, having supplied the platform with necessary\u00a0infrastructure<\/a>\u00a0since its launch in 2011.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen organizations build on AWS \u2013 as Zoom has done since 2011 \u2013 they transform their business, expanding and innovating much faster. Together, Zoom and AWS have delivered great experiences for new Zoom users around the world, and we look forward to using the cloud to develop new ways to help the world communicate,\u201d said Jassy.<\/p>\n

The announcement comes weeks after the video-conferencing platform\u00a0added a set of security features<\/a>\u00a0to help users combat ‘Zoom-bombing’ attacks. The new controls will help account holders remove unwanted guests and also spot if their meeting’s ID number has been shared online. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sabina Weston<\/p>\n

1 Dec, 2020 <\/p>\n

Zoom\u00a0has announced plans to extend its strategic partnership with\u00a0Amazon Web Services (AWS), selecting it as its preferred\u00a0cloud\u00a0provider.
\nThe announcement follows that Zoom would be shifting a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":627,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/627"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41608,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41607\/revisions\/41608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}