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Stripe, chosen by Amazon as the main platform for digital payments

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Stripethe digital payments company, was chosen by Amazon come main platform for digital payments. For this reason, Stripe will have a privileged role for transactions that take place on Jeff Bezos’ company site.

Amazon chooses Stripe for digital transactions

Amazon chooses Stripe as the leading digital transactions company. Anyone who wants to buy something will have to rely mainly on this company.

The partnership between the two companies starts from 2017, since Amazon has aimed to expand the market in Asia and Europe and to support the many purchases that take place during Prime Day around the world. Furthermore, with this new agreement, the use of Stripe will also be massive for payments in the United States United States and Canada.

Amazon, what to use Stripe for

The digital payments platform will be used for most of the products that Amazon offers, related to Prime, Audible, Kindle, Amazon Pay, Buy with prime e altro ancora.

For this reason, Stripe will have to further expand its use of Amazon web services, i.e. all the services that the giant offers. Among them, there is Gravity for efficiency and data processing and for Nitroaimed at data security.

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Amazon’s Vice President of Payments, Max Bardonhe has declared:

“Stripe has always been a trusted partner, which has helped to accelerate our business all the time. In particular, we like the reliability of Stripe. Even during peak days like Prime Day, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday, Stripe delivers industry-leading uptime. We appreciate Stripe’s relentless commitment to putting users first.”

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