Airtel, Amazon Web Services sign pact to offer cloud solutions to businesses

NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel Ltd and Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud services subsidiary of e-commerce giant Amazon.com, on Wednesday announced a strategic partnership to provide a basket of cloud solutions to large, small and medium businesses.

The partnership will enable Airtel and AWS integrate their capabilities to offer customers cloud services at a large scale. It will focus on developing products that secure remote working, which “many organisations have not taken seriously as of yet”, said Harmeen Mehta, Airtel’s chief operating officer (CIO) and head of cloud and security business.

Under the alliance, Airtel Cloud will build an AWS Cloud Practice supported by the latter’s expertise, and develop Airtel Cloud products leveraging AWS cloud solutions, Airtel’s data center, network and telecom offerings, the Sunil Mittal company said in a statement.