Salesforce Names Amazon Its Preferred Cloud Provider

Salesforce has officially named Amazon Web Services its preferred public cloud infrastructure provider, Amazon announced Wednesday.

The announcement follows a report by the Wall Street Journal earlier this month that Salesforce was using AWS for infrastructure that underpins its new Internet of Things service but there hasn’t been an official acknowledgement from either company until now. Salesforce’s other services, including Marketing Cloud Social Studio and SalesforceIQ, according to the announcement.

Salesforce has traditionally used colocation data centers to host infrastructure that supports its flagship cloud CRM services. The San Francisco-based company said it would now use AWS to bring new infrastructure online more quickly and efficiently, although it did not indicate that it would phase out its colo footprint.