Amazon’s AWS Acquires Encrypted Messaging App Wickr

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Amazon has acquired an American instant messaging app ‘Wickr’ to offer secure communications for businesses, government agencies, and individuals, who are moving to hybrid work environments, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Wickr app has been acquired by Amazon.com Inc’s cloud computing unit Amazon Web Services (AWS), for an undisclosed amount.
Wickr is an encrypted messaging services, founded in 2012, and primarily used by the government agencies in the United States.
It must be noted that Wickr offers most secure, end-to-end encrypted, communication technology, with advanced security features, that are not available with traditional communications services across messaging, voice and video calling, file sharing, and collaboration.