December 6, 2016

AWS and Salesforce expand global strategic alliance

Salesforce will leverage AWS cloud infrastructure to support customer base in Canada

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This week, cloud leader Amazon Web Services (AWS) and CRM giant Salesforce announced that they will expand their strategic alliance by delivering new service integrations.

The companies also announced that AWS will make Salesforce offerings available through AWS in Canada as part of Salesforce’s international public-cloud infrastructure expansion.

The five new integrations include Desktop Apps within Salesforce Lightning through Amazon AppStream 2.0, end-to-end IoT solution with Salesforce IoT Cloud and AWS IoT, Connected Analytics Solution with Salesforce Wave Analytics and Amazon Redshift, Smart Voice Apps with the Salesforce Platform and Alexa Toolkit, Simple and Secure Connections Between Salesforce Heroku Applications and Amazon VPCs.

Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO, Salesforce said :

We’re thrilled to extend our great partnership with AWS.

Integrating AWS’ industry-leading infrastructure services and technologies with Salesforce will bring even more exceptional solutions to our customers.