Reports: Amazon to acquire disaster recovery startup CloudEndure for up $250M

Amazon.com Inc. is reportedly in the process of buying CloudEndure Ltd., an Israeli disaster recovery startup that counts Dell Technologies Inc. as an investor.Anonymous tipsters told TechCrunch today that the transaction is valued at around $200 million. Earlier reports that appeared in the Israeli media late Monday pegged the price tag at $250 million. Globes, a local business publication, cited sources who said Amazon expects to close the deal in the coming days.CloudEndure offers a data protection service that enables companies to back up records from one public cloud to another. The service supports Amazon Web Services Inc., Microsoft Corp.’s Azure and Google Cloud, along with smaller platforms such as Oracle Cloud. It also works with on-premises infrastructure powered by VMware Inc.’s virtualization software.