Bharti Airtel & AWS Partnership will Enhance the Former's Cloud Business


Bharti Airtel & AWS Partnership will Enhance the Former's Cloud Business

Bharti Airtel announced that it will partner with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enhance the former’s cloud business, thereby enabling it to provide a wide range of products to its enterprise clients. This partnership will offer AWS business with direct access to its more than 2,500 large enterprise customers and over a million emerging business. While Airtel’s share rose 1.83 percent, close at 558.85 a piece, its customers will receive sales and support from both companies post the partnership.

Bharti Airtel Limited is a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 18 countries across Asia and Africa. Headquartered in New Delhi, the company ranks amongst the top three mobile service providers globally in terms of subscribers. In India, the company's product offerings include 2G, 3G and 4G wireless services, mobile commerce, fixed line services, high speed home broadband, DTH, enterprise services including national & international long distance services to carriers. In the rest of the geographies, it offers 2G, 3G, 4G wireless services and mobile commerce. Bharti Airtel had over 423 million customers across its operations at the end of March 2020.

In 2006, AWS began offering IT infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services, now known as cloud computing. One of the key benefits of cloud computing is the opportunity to replace up-front capital infrastructure expenses with low variable costs that scale with your business. With the Cloud, businesses no longer need to plan for and procure servers and other IT infrastructure weeks or months in advance. Instead, they can instantly spin up hundreds or thousands of servers in minutes and deliver results faster. Today, Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world.

“AWS with the depth and breadth of our platform, and Airtel with its deep reach and expertise and focus, I think together we can build a set of really differentiated cloud products and go serve customers at scale in India,” says Puneet Chandok, President, India and South Asia, Amazon Internet Services. The partnership will include new products such as data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and security services among others.