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Reliance partners with Microsoft to boost Jio cloud offerings
- Tuesday | 13th August, 2019
MUMBAI/COLOMBO (Reuters) – Reliance Industries Ltd on Monday announced a partnership with Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform, in a move that deepens the offerings of its Jio telecoms unit while posing a direct challenge to rival cloud services providers such as Amazon.com and Alphabet’s Google. As part of the 10-year alliance, Jio will build data centres across India that will be hosted on Microsoft’s Azure cloud, Reliance Chairman Mukesh Ambani told shareholders at the company annual shareholders’ meeting. Reliance’s foray into the cloud services market – essentially selling computer services such as website hosting and data storage – could intensify competition in an Indian market dominated by Amazon Web Services (AWS), say analysts. Ambani has always dubbed Jio a technology company, and used it to launch internet-enabled devices, deliver entertainment services, build fibre broadband and develop other offerings. Amazon’s cloud services unit declined to comment on the matter.
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