AWS and Atos Form New Strategic Partnership for Infrastructure Outsourcing

Amazon Web Services and Atos, a Paris-based company specializing in digital transformation, high performance computing and IT infrastructure, have rolled out a global agreement that enables Atos customers with large-scale infrastructure outsourcing contracts to accelerate workload migrations to the AWS cloud. The move extends the existing 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.

As part of the agreement, Atos will proactively consult with more than 800 managed infrastructure services customers to offer a new managed, hybrid-cloud service portfolio that features the option to move selected workloads to AWS. The offering will include highly industrialized migration methodology, solution accelerators, and the companies’ combined expertise in large-scale cloud migrations.

As part of the strategic partnership, Atos’ employees will also 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.

“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,” said Nourdine Bihmane, Co-CEO in charge of the Tech Foundations business line at Atos. “As a trusted partner, we are offering our customers the opportunity to accelerate their migration to AWS’s powerful, proven, cost-effective, and scalable cloud infrastructure, while supporting them in their digital transformation journey.”

“Through our collaboration, Atos’ customers will be able to realize the benefits of moving to the cloud, including reduced operating costs and carbon emissions, as well as increased business value and accelerated digital innovation,” said Ruba Borno, vice president, Worldwide Channels & Alliances at AWS. “We’re excited at the opportunity to work with Atos to upskill their workforce, helping to expand their expertise in cloud technologies so they can enable customers to build, develop, and innovate on the world’s leading cloud.”

Channel Impact^®
The alliance combines AWS’s portfolio of services—including analytics, compute, databases, machine learning, and storage—and Atos’ expertise as a Global Systems Integrator in a unified approach to digital transformation.