Amazon Web Services Inc. has landed yet another marquee customer. Oath Inc., a subsidiary of Verizon Communications Inc. that includes Yahoo and AOL brands, has selected it as its “preferred public cloud provider.”

Oath may not be such a familiar name, but it’s still a fairly big one. Oath is the recently created entity that took over the running of many of Yahoo Inc.’s web business operations following its acquisition by Verizon in July 2017. That’s why AWS believes the news is worth crowing about, as it will now provide the infrastructure for well-known services such as Yahoo.com, Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Sports, among others.

Migrating these services to AWS should be a fairly smooth passage, since Oath is no stranger to the cloud company. AWS already houses a number of Oath’s web properties, including Tumblr.com, AOL.com and news website HuffPost on its infrastructure. AWS also supports “key segments” of Oath’s programmatic advertising businesses, and has helped the company to scale these platforms to achieve greater efficiency and performance, the cloud giant said.

Oath Chief Technology Officer Atte Lahtiranta sang the praises of AWS in a prepared statement: “As we’ve deepened our use of AWS, we’ve been able to extend our global reach by leveraging AWS’s secure, highly-reliable, and fault-tolerant infrastructure and compute resources everywhere we need them,” he said.

“The ability to run, analyze, store and distribute petabyte-sized multimedia assets from anywhere around the world has been a major driver for cloud adoption in the media landscape,” said Mike Clayville, vice president of worldwide commercial sales at AWS.

The move follows the April 4 announcement of two other “all-in” customers, image publishing service Shutterfly Inc. and vehicle services firm Cox Automotive Inc. In January, it added Comcast Cable, and in late March came web hosting service GoDaddy Inc. Last fall, it reported at least five other major new customers, including The Walt Disney Co., Turner Broadcasting System Inc. Expedia Inc., the National Football League and Intuit Inc.

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