Amazon is partnering with Ripple. This is my personal opinion and may or not be true. Please do your own follow up research. My belief is Ripple and Amazon AWS working together as an unannounced partnership. Check Out New Article on Dec. 17, 2017 - leaking rationale - https://oracletimes.com/amazon-ripple-xrp-2018/ Links AWS re:Invent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87rbAGNcm0c&t=2017s Joel Katz https://www.xrpchat.com/topic/12970-2-huge-household-names/ Ripple Meetup in Seoul https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqGINJr80bg&feature=youtu.be&t=7m12s Ask Me anything with Brad https://ripple.com/insights/ask-anything-brad/