5 Cloud Service Providers Helping Companies Navigate COVID-19

In the time of crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, tech companies, regardless of large and small, around the globe are stepping out to respond to the epidemic. As people told to stay away from others and work from home, the dependency over the digital infrastructure is increased. This intensifying reliance on digital solutions creates more pressure on the cloud infrastructure as people are increasingly using cloud services for completing their work amid this crisis.

While the use of services such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud that have enabled companies to keep operating their businesses through applications such as Zoom Video, Slack, Skype and others. Thus, at this time, cloud service providers must provide reliable infrastructure and have to meet the uptime demands.

Here are 5 cloud service providers helping companies during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Atlas Cloud

Atlas Cloud, a leading provider of cloud IT services, which offers an entire suite of managed IT solutions. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne with offices in Leeds, Sheffield & London, the company is at the forefront of hosted private cloud services while also having a proven track record in hybrid cloud provision. Its suite of cloud services for business includes secure file sharing, email security, web security, Office 365, graphics, network connectivity, telephony and VoIP. In March this year, Atlas Cloud secured €2.1 million venture funding to extend its cloud computing solutions, further develop its range of solutions and other ambitious growth plans. During the COVID-19 induced crisis, the company is supporting its clients in switching to embrace public cloud infrastructure and virtual offerings instead of a device-led model.

Amazon Web Services

E-commerce giant Amazon’s Cloud arm AWS is providing highly scalable and reliable infrastructure capacity, technical support, and cloud services to assist customers with their research, remote work and learning. In order to meet customers' IT requirements in the current panorama, cloud systems and investment is rapidly growing. Recently, Amazon reported its first-quarter cloud revenue of US$10.2 billion, up 33 percent. In terms of new services, AWS announced the general availability of its Amazon Keyspaces cloud database service. In addition, the company also announced Amazon AppFlow, a new service helping organizations move data across applications.

Google

Search engine Google is also solidifying its cloud services and focusing on Google Cloud to assist its customers to navigate the impacts of COVID-19. Recently, the tech giant announced its first-quarter cloud revenue that was close to US$2.8 billion, up 52 percent over the year-ago quarter. Google is seeing governments use its solutions to help them track the spread of the virus, better respond to questions from citizens and communities, and help manage services like unemployment disbursements and child welfare. The Google Cloud Data Catalog, a fully managed metadata management service, also hit a major milestone during the quarter, exiting beta and becoming generally available.

Aiven

Aiven, a developer of managed cloud service hosting for software infrastructure services, has developed an automated cloud operations platform. The company provides the best managed, open source data infrastructure services to cover all of the needs of complex internet applications. Aiven’s software allows developers to focus on core products instead of the underlying infrastructure. In February 2019, the company raised US$0 million in series B funding to bolster its market presence and business. Currently, the company provides services on top of eight different open-source projects include Apache Kafka, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Redis, InfluxDB and Grafana. These all cover a variety of basic functions, from data streams to search and the handling of a different number of functions that involve ordering and managing vast quantities of data.

Citrix Systems

Citrix Systems, a provider of server, application and desktop virtualization, networking, SaaS, and cloud computing solutions, aims to power a world where people, organizations and things are securely connected and accessible to make the extraordinary possible. Amid the crisis, the company’s solutions enable business continuity and the ability of employees to securely work from home. Citrix is committed to maintaining its operations and supporting its customers to ensure safe, secure, and uninterrupted operations throughout this global crisis. The company provides a complete and integrated portfolio of Workspace-as-a-Service, application delivery, virtualization, network delivery and file sharing solutions that let IT to ensure critical systems are securely available to users through the cloud or on-premise and across any device or platform.