Amdocs Announces a Strategic Collaboration with Amazon Web Services to Offer AmdocsONE on the Cloud to Accelerate CSPs’ Journey to Cloud-Native Solutions and Operations

BARCELONA, Spain, February 26, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Amdocs (NASDAQ: DOX), a leading provider of software and services for media and communications providers, today announced a Strategic Collaboration Agreement with Amazon at Mobile World Congress Web Services (AWS) to accelerate the cloud transition of communication service providers (CSPs) to drive rapid innovation and operational efficiency.

A recent, comprehensive survey conducted by Analysis Mason found that by 2022, more than 90 percent of CSP systems will be cloud-based, and more than 60 percent of these systems will run on hybrid architectures. To address this growing segment, Amdocs, along with AWS, will provide several initiatives, including:

The migration of Amdocs Business Support Systems and existing third-party environments into an optimized hybrid cloud operating environment. Amdocs will enable and support CSP providers when deploying and migrating new and existing Amdocs products to AWS.

Amdocs' Amdocs Managed Services Provider (MSP) helps CSP providers modernize and drive low-touch operations efficiently and outsourced, including highly secure and reliable AWS technologies. This practice builds on the Amdocs certification distinction as an AWS Advanced Technology Provider Partner in the AWS Partner Network (APN).

Amdocs will use advanced open source technologies, hyper-scalar systems and resilient network scaling to create cloud-based AWS environments to help CSPs test new offerings, new consumers and disruptive business models. .

"Communications and media providers are managing some of the world's most critical and hyper-scaled systems, Amdocs is a clear, long-term leader in empowering CSP vendors around the world, and we're excited to collaborate with them to deliver compelling value to our mutual customers, "said Terry Wise, Global Vice President of Channels and Alliances." The strategic collaboration between Amdocs and AWS was created to support payment service providers as they move forward. accelerate their journey into the cloud to new levels of business agility, innovation and cost savings.This collaboration will enable digital service providers to quickly become digital service providers, delivering new and improved customer experiences, simple, personal, contextual and useful at all levels of engagement on all cana ow.

"Putting the customer first is a philosophy that both companies are passionate about - this strategic collaboration with AWS will accelerate our customers' cloud travel while strengthening our own cloud capabilities." AmdocsONE is powered by Cloud technologies as a fundamental design tenant and, as a result, many of our platforms are now fully native to the cloud.We take advantage of a carrier-class microservice design paradigm to leverage the power of dynamic deployment and scalability of AWS Cloud and are excited about this opportunity for our customers, "said Anthony Goonetilleke, President of the Amdocs Technology Group.

The Amdocs Strategic Program represents an expansion of the existing relationship between Amdocs and AWS. Businesses have been collaborating for several years to support communications and media companies in their transition to the cloud. In November 2016, Amdocs earned the status of AWS IoT partner, demonstrating its technical expertise and proven track record in providing IoT Connected Home solutions.