D2L Teams with Amazon Web Services

D2L is partnering with Amazon Web Services (AWS) in an effort to better serve customers and to accelerate expansion and innovation.

"D2L's Brightspace is a digital learning platform that helps schools, universities, colleges and enterprise," according to a news release. "D2L is accelerating its innovation by leveraging built-in AWS services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Elasticsearch and the suite of AWS analytics and security services."

"D2L's mission is to transform the way the world learns and this collaboration with AWS is a significant milestone in that journey," said John Baker, D2L president and CEO, in a prepared statement. "Leveraging this cloud infrastructure, we can put even more effort into further innovating our award-winning LMS. Our customers can trust that their valuable data will be stored and delivered with industry-leading reliability and security — a promise we have delivered on for the past 17 years."

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