(Bloomberg) — Amazon.com Inc. is betting big on cybersecurity company CrowdStrike Holdings Inc., replacing other defensive tools with the company’s safeguards.
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Amazon Web Services, Amazon’s for-profit cloud computing business, has abandoned other security products in favor of CrowdStrike’s cyberthreat protection and response offerings, the two companies announced Thursday.
They described this as part of an expanded “strategic partnership” without providing details of the financial agreement.
Shares of CrowdStrike were up about 3% as of 12:15 p.m. Thursday in New York.
CJ Moses, Amazon’s chief information security officer, said AWS and other parts of the company have largely completed adoption of CrowdStrike’s latest security monitoring platform, in addition to its services aimed at preventing attacks via compromised employee credentials. Those programs and much of CrowdStrike’s suite of security tools will be rolled out “Amazon-wide” by the end of the year, he said.
“We secure everything from satellites in space to delivery vehicles,” Moses said. The newly adopted CrowdStrike products replace some tools developed by Amazon, he said, as well as products from “individual niche players” he declined to name.
George Kurtz, CEO of CrowdStrike, said Amazon’s expanded usage matches what his company has seen from other customers: a desire for simple, unified cybersecurity products. “They want to consolidate with fewer vendors,” Kurtz said, echoing a point made previously by analysts and competitors, including Microsoft Corp., the largest seller of cybersecurity products.
CrowdStrike, in turn, is adopting more services from AWS to accelerate the development of generative artificial intelligence capabilities on its core security platform, Kurtz said.
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