The cloud computing platform Amazon Web Services acquire messaging service Wickr.
Amazon Web Service had posted revenues of $13.5 billion last quarter, up 32% year-on-year, with net income of $8.1 billion.
AWS vice president Stephen Schmidt claimed that the acquisition will help the company build its relationships further with the military, and Washington in general, and said that Wickr’s features give “security-conscious enterprises and government agencies the ability to implement important governance and security controls to help them meet their compliance requirements.”
The terms of the deal were not disclosed but Schmidt concluded the note, by adding that AWS (Amazon Web Services) will be offering Wickr services effective immediately and the current Wickr users would not see significant changes for the time being.
About Wickr
It is a American software company based in U.S.A, It is known for its instant messenger application of the same name.
Wickr has developed several secure messaging apps based on different customer needs: Wickr Me, Wickr Pro, Wickr RAM, and Wickr Enterprise. The Wickr instant messaging apps allow users to exchange end-to-end encrypted and content-expiring messages, including photos, videos, and file attachments.
About AWS
It is a subsidiary of Amazon which provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis.
These cloud computing web services provide a variety of basic abstract technical infrastructure and distributed computing building blocks and tools.
