- Western Union (WU) selects Amazon Web Services (AMZN) as its preferred long-term strategic cloud provider.
- WU will move a "significant portion" of its infrastructure to AWS.
- In September, Western Union's VP head of technology transformation outlined the regulatory requirements driving the company's multi-cloud push. For example, Russia requires all data to remain in Russia and Japan requires all cloud transactions to remain in Japan.
- WU operates in 200 countries and deals with 130 currencies.