has said that Zoom primarily relies on Amazon's cloud infrastructure to power much of the rest of its business.
Notably, however, AWS isn't the only cloud that Zoom regularly uses. In April, Oracle and Zoom announced aThe deal was called a turning pointwhich has seen its cloud ambitions dwarfed by AWS, Microsoft, and Google. Oracle also has a pending deal to potentially take a stake in TikTok, which would also see the viral video app move much or all of its cloud infrastructure to the database giant's platform.
Zoom quickly became a success story during the coronavirus pandemic, growing from 10 million daily meeting participants in December 2019 to 300 million a day since April 2020. It's also widely used in schools, government organizations, and other types of organizations. With that growth has come an increased need for cloud infrastructure: in the press release announcing the new partnership, Amazon says that it helped provide Zoom with support, including on cybersecurity monitoring, to help with streaming large sporting and entertainment events.
"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, and AWS was there from the beginning to ensure Zoom could scale to meet these new requirements virtually overnight," Jassy said in a statement.
Gee I wonder why? Maybe AWS is more cost-effective and offers more services....
Looks like Jeff Bezos will be a million dollars richer 👌👌👌
Kantrowitz this gets a