Airtel, Amazon in cloud business pact

Bharti Airtel and Amazon Web Services have joined hands to develop the telecom firm’s cloud business, allowing it to offer a comprehensive set of solutions to large businesses and small and medium enterprises (SME) in India.

Airtel has over 2,500 large companies as its clients and more than a million emerging businesses with its product portfolio, including Airtel Cloud, a multi-cloud product and solutions business.

“The strategic collaboration between Airtel and AWS will offer a suite of cloud solutions to drive the digital transformation of businesses in India,” Harmeen Mehta, chief information officer and head –— cloud and security business, Bharti Airtel, said in a virtual conference.