Six months after Oracle trumpeted Zoom as a cloud customer AWS says it is Zooms preferred cloud
Big Red said it was picked for its ‘superior’ cloud, but marketing minutiae and conference-eve thunder stealing have intruded Amazon Web Services has announced it is now videoconferencing darling Zoom’s “preferred” cloud.…
Date: 2020-12-01
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