Amazon Cloud, Salesforce Forge Closer Alliance to Combine Products

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Amazon. com Inc.’s cloud unit and Salesforce.com Inc. have forged a closer alliance in an effort to more tightly couple their products and enable customers to more easily, quickly and securely use both companies’ services together.

The agreement is a significant expansion to a more than five-year deal between Amazon Web Services, the largest seller of cloud-infrastructure services, and Salesforce, the biggest maker of cloud-based customer management programs.