Amazon announced that Amazon Web Services is acquiring NICE, a software and services provider for high performance and technical computing.

NICE will operate under its existing brand and continue to work with its customers and partners ad well as develop and support its EnginFrame and Desktop Cloud Visualization products.

“Like AWS, we are a customer obsessed company and we are globally appreciated for the excellence of our support and professional services”, said Bruno Franzini, Support and Professional Services Manager at NICE. “With the backing of AWS, we will pamper our customers even more!”

CEO Beppe Ugolotti added, “The entire team will be with us to open this new chapter of our history. Everybody is already dreaming about all the new technologies we will be able to develop working together with our future colleagues at AWS.”

The agreement is signed and the deal is expected to close within the quarter. Terms were not disclosed.