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June 25 (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc’s (AMZN.O) cloud computing unit has purchased encrypted messaging platform Wickr to enable protected communication as staff mostly get the job done from property, the company reported on Friday.
Wickr, a startup launched by privacy advocates, features to help produce self-destructing messaging technology for economic solutions firms and gaming companies.
The worth of the deal was not disclosed.
Companies going to hybrid get the job done environments owing to the COVID-19 pandemic are ever more concentrating on preserving their interaction with company partners across distant areas.
“The have to have for this form of secure communications is accelerating,” stated Stephen Schmidt, main details safety officer at Amazon Internet Solutions.
Amazon has also been striving to bag cloud contracts from governing administration organizations and has been in a prolonged struggle with Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) following it misplaced a multi-billion-dollar Pentagon offer.
Schmidt said Wickr would give safety-acutely aware enterprises and authorities agencies the capability to carry out safety controls, serving to them meet up with their compliance specifications.
AWS is providing Wickr companies effective immediately and Wickr shoppers, channel, and business enterprise associates can proceed to use its companies, he said.
Reporting by Nivedita Balu in Bengaluru
Editing by Vinay Dwivedi
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