No, Verizon is Not Getting Out of the Cloud Business -- at Least not for Government

News broke earlier this month that telecommunications giant Verizon would shutter two of its public cloud services, but government customers shouldn’t fret.

“There won’t be any impact at all” to Verizon’s government customers, Verizon spokesman Kevin Irland told Nextgov.

While the company notified customers it was shuttering Verizon Public Cloud Reserved Performance and Marketplace, government customers use a different cloud service platform entirely: Verizon Enterprise Cloud Federal Edition.

Enterprise Cloud Federal Edition is a public, private and hybrid cloud platform with numerous customers across the federal space. It has met the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program’s standards, which are the government’s standardized cloud security requirements.

In the federal space, Irland said Verizon sees agencies moving toward private and hybrid cloud. Its federal business will continue to target those areas, he said.

Regarding the decommissioned services, Irland said “no public sector clients” will be affected, and noted the now-shut down services were ones that “required a credit card to spin up.”

As Data Center Knowledge reported, Verizon’s public cloud services faced stiff competition from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google. Verizon’s public cloud services suffered a similar fate to those offered by other large tech companies, notably Dell and HP.

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