<p>Ray Ozzie, as is his practice, has been nearly silent on the topic of his new startup, Talko. But now we know that it, like thousands of other startups, will use Amazon Web Services. How do we know this? Ray's Talko colleague Ransom Richardson spoke at a local AWS meetup in Cambridge, Mass. Monday night, according to several attendees.</p><p>Ray Ozzie</p><p>Richardson spoke about remote management but did not offer many (or any) details about Talko's product or its timing, according two attendees. "We did learn that they run on AWS and he said it would be a communications service for mobile something that takes into account the pervasiveness of mobile devices and tries to provide a more engaging experience," one attendee said. That's pretty much all that Ozzie has said publicly about Talko, which was once called Cocomo.</p><p>Last March, Ozzie signaled that he was open to using a wide array of services including but not limited to those from Microsoft, where he was chief software architect then chief strategist and which he left in 2011. Talko has netted $4 million in funding that we know about.</p><p><a href="http://gigaom.com/2013/03/12/one-secret-about-ray-ozzies-secretive-startup-is-out-it-will-tap-amazons-cloud/">Keep reading...</a></p>