Furthering compatibility with AWS will give customers an enhanced experience when connecting their XenServer virtualised data centres.

Crosby added that Citrix will continue working with Amazon to enable easier migration of workloads to the cloud to leverage the elasticity, cost and scalability benefits of AWS.

"We are excited to extend our relationship with Citrix to bring its extensive engineering talent to streamline Citrix and Windows applications running on Amazon Web Services," said Terry Wise, director of partner relations of Amazon Web Services. "This effort supports the increased demands we see from customers who want to leverage the scalability, security and utility-based pricing model of Amazon Web Services to run their Windows and Citrix workloads."

Last month, Citrix Systems reported financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year that ended 31 December 2010.

Citrix achieved revenue of US$530 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010 compared to US$451 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009, which represents 17 per cent revenue growth.