AWS, Atos Announce Strategic Transformation Agreement

Also at re:Invent, AWS and Atos announced a global strategic transformation agreement that enables Atos customers with large-scale infrastructure outsourcing contracts to accelerate workload migrations to the cloud and achieve digital transformation.

The multiyear agreement extends the strategic relationship between Atos and AWS, with Atos selecting AWS as its preferred enterprise cloud provider and AWS naming Atos as a strategic partner for IT outsourcing and data center transformation. This agreement provides business and technology advisory, digital engineering, and managed services to Atos’ customers to accelerate their journeys to the cloud.

AWS will also work with Atos to develop and deliver new industry solutions for IT outsourcing and data center transformation to customers globally, as well as to upskill Atos’ workforce and drive efficiencies in its data center, cloud and security operations, including selective migration of legacy data centers and IT hardware assets.

In addition, Atos employees will be trained on AWS, scaling up their skills and knowledge to continue supporting customers on their digital transformation journeys. Over the next three years, Atos plans to train its employees to achieve more than 20,000 AWS certifications in order to expedite customers’ cloud adoption and help them leverage the advantages of the cloud.

Nourdine Bihmane is co-CEO in charge of Atos‘ tech foundations business line.

“We are proud to strengthen our partnership with AWS in a first-of-its-kind collaboration, which is transformational in both its approach and its impact on our customers and the IT outsourcing industry,” he said. “In addition, this partnership represents another significant step in Atos’ transformation. As a trusted partner, we are offering our customers the opportunity to accelerate their migration to AWS’ powerful, proven, cost-effective and scalable cloud infrastructure, while supporting them in their digital transformation journey.”