Salesforce and AWS expand partnership to deliver new integrations

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Key Takeaways

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Salesforce have strengthened their partnership to enhance product integrations focused on data and AI, making select Salesforce products available on the AWS marketplace.

The agreement facilitates seamless and secure data management across both platforms, incorporating generative AI technologies into applications and workflows, with enhancements such as Salesforce's support for Amazon Bedrock.

Both companies will leverage each other's technologies to improve services, with Salesforce expanding its use of AWS for data and AI, while AWS will utilize Salesforce products to create unified customer profiles for personalized experiences.

Announced at the AWS re:Invent event, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Salesforce have expanded their long-standing partnership to broaden product integrations across data and AI and offer select Salesforce products on the AWS marketplace.

The expanded agreement makes it easier for customers to seamlessly and securely manage their data across both platforms as well as safely and responsibly infuse the latest GenAI technologies into their applications and workflows.

Both companies will deepen their integrations between AWS and Salesforce products. Salesforce will also support Amazon Bedrock as part of Salesforce’s open model ecosystem strategy. This will make Amazon Bedrock available via Einstein Trust Layer to power AI-driven apps and workflows in Salesforce. Additionally, Salesforce Data Cloud will expand to support data sharing across additional AWS technologies.

As part of this partnership, Salesforce will expand its use of AWS, including compute, storage, data and AI technologies through Hyperforce to enhance services such as Salesforce Data Cloud. AWS will also expand its use of Salesforce products such as Data Cloud which will enable AWS to create a unified customer profile to deliver more personalized experiences.

Marc Benioff, chair and CEO, Salesforce, said: “Today’s announcement is an incredible milestone in the evolution of our longstanding partnership with AWS.

We’re bringing together the #No. 1 AI CRM provider and the leading cloud provider to deliver a trusted, open, integrated data and AI platform, and ensuring we meet massive customer demand for our products on the AWS Marketplace. With these enhancements to our partnership, we’re enabling all of our customers to be more innovative, productive and successful in this new AI era.”

Adam Selipsky, CEO, AWS, said: “Salesforce and AWS make it easy for developers to securely access and leverage data and generative AI technologies to drive rapid transformation for their organizations and industries.

“With this expanded partnership, our joint customers gain powerful new ways to innovate, collaborate and build more customer-focused applications using the broadest and deepest set of cloud services.”