The deal echoes an earlier pact Salesforce signed with Amazon Web Services (AWS) last May, in which it named the Seattle giant a "preferred partner" for its public cloud infrastructure. Now Salesforce is using the same terminology for the Google deal, but when questioned on how it was possible to "have two best friends," Salesforce's executive vice president head of business development and strategic accounts Ryan Aytay told press the partnership would not affect its relationship with Amazon.