Amazon’s AWS Is Buying Encrypted Messaging Service Wickr

In what appears to be like to be an even bigger push into the secured messaging house, Amazon’s AWS has just announced that it’s buying Wickr.

Founded in 2011, Wickr’s core service is predicated round offering enterprise end-to-end encryption for messaging, teleconferencing, and file switch, with Wicker also claiming the excellence of Wickr RAM being “the only collaboration service with full functionality to meet all security criteria outlined” by the NSA.

Even although AWS gives internet hosting functionality for all method of cloud companies, AWS is a comparatively small participant within the messaging house with AWS’s solely different comparable providing being Chime, which is another meeting and video conferencing tool available as part of AWS’s growing portfolio of business services, though Chime does not support E2E encryption.

While the terms of the deal were not disclosed, TechCrunch says by way of Pitchbook that Wickr had raised $60 million in funding, and even with an outsized valuation, AWS’s acquisition of Wickr represents a drop within the bucket in comparison with AWS’s revenue of around $45 billion in 2020.

In AWS’s announcement submit, AWS VP and chief info safety officer Stephen Schmidt stated AWS will start providing Wickr’s companies to AWS prospects “immediately,” although Schmidt didn’t present any steerage on how the acquisition of Wickr will impression Chime or different AWS companies going ahead.

That stated, with Wickr’s claims about having encrypted communication that meets authorities tips, I wouldn’t be stunned if AWS plans to make use of Wickr to assist win contracts to deal with navy communication sooner or later. Currently, Wickr companies are damaged up into a number of classes together with options for the navy, authorities companies, state and native authorities, and enterprise.

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In addition to offering safe collaboration instruments permitting firms to share encrypted messages or information inside their group, Wickr additionally helps self-destructing messages that routinely delete themselves after a specified size of time.