Overview
- Zoho said on October 1 and October 2 that it is expanding Catalyst, its serverless platform, and will make the service free for students so they can build and deploy apps without infrastructure bills.
- The company says it built core cloud components itself—databases, identity, messaging, search, storage and compute—and is productizing those systems for outside developers.
- Zoho reports it runs services on hardware it owns and on software frameworks built over open-source tools like Linux and Postgres, and that it operates more than a dozen data centres globally with Indian data kept in India.
- The company confirmed it does not host products on AWS or Azure for storage but may use large cloud providers as regional switching nodes to speed traffic.
- Zoho leadership warned engineers to treat AI as a tool rather than a replacement for understanding code, saying responsible use and human review remain required to avoid errors and loss of institutional knowledge.