https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/02/verizons-oath-is-doubling-down-on-amazons-cloud.html

When Verizon's Oath division was looking to consolidate its Yahoo, AOL and other brands into the public cloud, Amazon Web Services emerged as the obvious choice, in part because that's where start-ups house their data. And Oath plans to do deals.

"It's highly unlikely that the start-up system runs in our private cloud or on-premises when we buy them," Atte Lahtiranta, Oath's chief technology officer, told CNBC in an interview. "We did a lot of due diligence. AWS is just — they are really good."