Verizon Selects AWS as its Preferred Public Cloud Provider
May 15 2018 - 8:59AM
Business Wire
Global leader delivering innovative
communications and technology solutions migrates core enterprise IT
systems, production databases, and customer-facing applications to
AWS
Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS),
an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that
Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) has selected AWS as its preferred
public cloud provider. Verizon is migrating over 1,000
business-critical applications and database backend systems to AWS,
several of which also include the migration of production databases
to Amazon Aurora—AWS’s relational database engine that combines the
speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the
simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases.
Verizon first started working with AWS in 2015 and has several
successful business and consumer applications already running in
the cloud. This latest wave of migrations to AWS is part of a
corporate-wide initiative at Verizon to increase agility and reduce
costs through the use of cloud computing. Standardizing on AWS will
enable Verizon to access the most comprehensive set of cloud
capabilities available today so it can deliver innovative
applications and services in hours versus weeks. To ensure that
Verizon’s developers are able to invent on behalf of its customers,
the company has also invested in building AWS-specific training
facilities, called “dojos,” where its employees can quickly ramp up
on AWS technologies and learn how to innovate with speed and at
scale.
"We are making the public cloud a core part of our digital
transformation, upgrading our database management approach to
replace our proprietary solutions with Amazon Aurora," said Mahmoud
El-Assir, Senior Vice President
of Global Technology Services at Verizon. “The
agility we’ve gained by moving to the world’s leading public cloud
has helped us better serve our customers. Working
with AWS complements our focus on efficiency,
speed, and innovation within our engineering culture, and has
enabled us to quickly deliver the best, most efficient customer
experiences."
“Millions of consumers and businesses rely on Verizon to
communicate and connect them to every corner of the world at a time
when the stakes have never been higher to keep customers satisfied
and engaged,” said Mike Clayville, Vice President, Worldwide
Commercial Sales at AWS. “We look forward to continuing our work
with Verizon as their preferred public cloud provider, helping them
to continually transform their business and innovate on behalf of
their customers. The combination of Verizon’s team of builders with
AWS’s extensive portfolio of cloud services and expertise means
that Verizon’s options for delighting their customers is virtually
unlimited.”
About Amazon Web Services
For over 12 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most
comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over
125 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases,
networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence
(AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual
and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application
development, deployment, and management from 55 Availability Zones
(AZs) within 18 geographic regions and one Local Region around the
world, spanning the U.S., Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France,
Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and the UK. AWS
services are trusted by millions of active customers around the
world—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises,
and leading government agencies—to power their infrastructure, make
them more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit
https://aws.amazon.com.
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About Verizon
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ), headquartered in
New York City, generated $126 billion in 2017 revenues. The company
operates America’s most reliable wireless network and the nation’s
premier all-fiber network, and delivers integrated solutions to
businesses worldwide. Its Oath subsidiary reaches about one billion
people around the world with a dynamic house of media and
technology brands.
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