Six months after Oracle trumpeted Zoom as a cloud customer, AWS says it is Zoom’s ‘preferred’ cloud

Amazon Web Services has announced it is now videoconferencing darling Zoom’s “preferred” cloud. “The multi-year agreement extends the longstanding relationship between the two companies, enabling Zoom to rapidly scale its service on the world’s leading cloud,” reads Amazon’s canned statement. “AWS has supported Zoom since …

[SecretSonOfHG]

Oracle cloud claims are questionable

Wonder where are the auditors looking at when they see revenue statements from "cloud" sales and close to no one is actually using the Oracle "cloud" part. Same with SAP, BTW.

[Strahd Ivarius]

Re: Oracle cloud claims are questionable

Perhaps it is for licences of Oracle products running on AWS?

[Gerhard Mack]

Re: Oracle cloud claims are questionable

We use it at work judging buy the regular "scheduled maintenance" messages, I'm not sure Oracle gets the whole "cloud" thing.

[Kevin McMurtrie]

Re: Oracle cloud claims are questionable

There are definitely companies using Oracle Cloud. I see brute-force spammer Responsys in the postfix rejection logs regularly. The question is if any of those companies aren't owned by Oracle.

[Anonymous Coward]

Old dog

Maybe Oracle ramped up the costs (the way it does) before Zoom was safely locked in.