Wickr, a startup founded by privacy advocates, offers to help
develop self-destructing messaging technology for financial
services firms and gaming companies.
The value of the deal was not disclosed.
Companies moving to hybrid work environments due to the COVID-19
pandemic are increasingly focusing on protecting their
communication with business partners across remote locations.
"The need for this type of secure communications is
accelerating," said Stephen Schmidt, chief information security
officer at Amazon Web Services.
Amazon has also been striving to bag cloud contracts from
government agencies and has been in a prolonged battle with
Microsoft Corp after it lost a multi-billion-dollar Pentagon
deal.
Schmidt said Wickr would give security-conscious enterprises and
government agencies the ability to implement security controls,
helping them meet their compliance requirements.
AWS is offering Wickr services effective immediately and Wickr
customers, channel, and business partners can continue to use
its services, he said.
(Reporting by Nivedita Balu in Bengaluru; Editing by Vinay
Dwivedi)
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