Bharti Airtel has inked a multi-year strategic pact with Amazon Web Services (AWS) – the cloud services arm of Amazon– to deliver Cloud solutions to large as well as small and medium enterprise (SME) customers in India.
This collaboration gives customers a single point of contact when dealing with complex migrations or custom-built solutions.
In addition, Airtel Cloud will leverage AWS' innovation and transformation services across analytics, data warehousing, Internet of Things (IoT), and machine learning (ML) to help customers adopt new services and migrate to the Cloud from legacy infrastructure.
Airtel serves over 2,500 large enterprises and more than one million emerging businesses and companies with an integrated product portfolio. It includes Airtel Cloud, a multi-Cloud product and solutions business.
Airtel Cloud will build an AWS Cloud Practice, supported by AWS Professional Services, as well as develop differentiated Cloud products and capabilities leveraging AWS services, Airtel's data centre capabilities and network and telecoms offerings.
Airtel customers will benefit from an integrated sales, consulting, and support approach from both companies, and improved security, scalability, and Cloud management capabilities.
Airtel Cloud will offer customers a range of AWS services, including Windows on AWS, SAP on AWS, VMware Cloud on AWS, database migration, and security as well as risk governance solutions.