AT&T Announces New Strategic Relationship with Amazon Web Services to Integrate Cloud and Networking Capabilities

Hong Kong, Oct.
7, 2016 — AT&T has reached a multi-year, strategic alliance agreement
with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to optimize delivery of integrated solutions
built on the companies’ respective cloud and networking capabilities. The
collaboration is designed to help both existing and new customers more
efficiently migrate to and utilize the AWS Cloud with the AT&T network. The
solutions are intended to span cloud networking, mobility, Internet of Things
(IoT), security and analytics.

“Customers of all
sizes are quickly migrating to the AWS Cloud to reduce their data center
footprint, become more agile and take advantage of innovation in areas such as
IoT, Big Data and Analytics,” said Terry Wise, Vice President of Worldwide
Partner Ecosystem, Amazon Web Services, Inc. “Advanced connectivity and network
solutions are critical to enabling our customers to get the most out of our
services. We are excited to expand our alliance with AT&T and deliver new
solutions designed to enable customers to accelerate their journey to the AWS Cloud.”

“For many enterprises,
the cloud’s potential can be equal parts tantalizing and challenging. Emerging
technology trends and fluctuating needs mean that a company’s plans are
dynamic, and can quickly change,” said Mo Katibeh, Senior Vice President,
Advanced Solutions, AT&T Business Solutions. “Together, AT&T and AWS
can help streamline the leap to the cloud. We’re helping businesses connect
everything and anything to the cloud. More importantly, we’re doing this so it
can be simple, scalable and highly secure.”

The collaboration will
focus in three main business areas, with potential expansion in the future:

·         Business Cloud Networking: Since the integration was initially
launched, AT&T NetBond® has become an increasingly popular
way for customers to establish high-speed, highly secure network connections to
the AWS Cloud. In fact, the AT&T NetBond ecosystem has seen four fold
growth in connections and eight fold in traffic over the last year. In order to
deliver even more advanced networking capabilities to customers, AT&T and
AWS will work together to identify new solutions with security, performance,
and mobility in mind. Emphasis will be placed on enhancing end-to-end customer
visibility across more highly secure and high performing network connections,
allowing for faster and more automated decision making capabilities to the
customer.

·         IoT: AT&T and AWS will coordinate introduction of AT&T
IoT-connected sensors and devices preconfigured to seamlessly and more securely
send data into the AWS Cloud. This integration will provide customers with
massive breadth and scale.  It brings together AT&T’s global network,
which connects nearly 29 million connected devices as of 2Q 2016 and reaches
over 200 countries and territories, with AWS IoT, a managed cloud platform that
can more securely and reliably scale to billions of devices and trillions of
messages. Integration with the AT&T IoT Starter Kit and
IoT Data plans are also intended to be included, which would allow customers to
build their own solutions using AT&T IoT and AWS IoT.

·         Threat Management: AT&T and AWS both view security as the
highest priority. As part of this expanded strategic relationship, AT&T and
AWS plan to employ their respective expertise and knowledge in security to
help customers prevent, detect, and respond to threats faster and more
efficiently. Using threat data and knowledge from both organizations will help
fuel the processes and tools that comprise AT&T Threat Intellect, the “brains” behind
AT&T’s security platform that uses advanced analytics to help provide
improved end-to-end security protection for every user on our network.

With a key focus on
implementing innovative strategies, the alliance relationship will bring
together designated professionals from each company to integrate automated and
flexible cloud solutions in support of the global, mobilized workforce.

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