NTT DATA Signs Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS to Accelerate Enterprise Cloud and Agentic AI Adoption

NTT DATA Signs Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS to Accelerate Enterprise Cloud and Agentic AI Adoption

London, Jan 30: NTT DATA, a global leader in AI, digital business, and technology services, today announced a multi-year Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help enterprises modernize legacy systems, adopt agentic AI responsibly, and scale innovation across industries.

The collaboration combines NTT DATA’s expertise in cloud transformation, cloud-native modernization, and Agentic AI with AWS’s scale and innovation capabilities, delivering tailored enterprise solutions that modernize mission-critical workloads, build secure cloud foundations, and drive measurable business outcomes.

Key Focus Areas of the Collaboration:

• AI-driven Large-scale Cloud Transformation: Accelerating migration and modernization of on-premises workloads to AWS, leveraging generative and agentic AI, automation, and data platforms to unlock new business models and intelligent operations.

• Industry Cloud Solutions on AWS: Delivering repeatable, industry-specific solutions across financial services, healthcare, life sciences, public sector, manufacturing, retail, and energy, leveraging NTT DATA’s Industry Cloud with 500+ extensible business components and AI agents.

• AI and Data Innovation for Managed Services and Client Experiences: Modernizing contact center solutions on Amazon Connect and driving AI-enabled customer experience (CX) solutions at scale.

• Digital Sovereignty and Regulated Cloud Solutions: Supporting European governments and enterprises through the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, delivering sovereign-by-design solutions that meet stringent data residency and compliance requirements.

NTT DATA has formed a dedicated AWS Business Group, aligned with AWS sales and delivery teams, comprising 11,000 AWS-certified experts, with plans to certify nearly 10,000 more over the next three years.

Abhijit Dubey, President and CEO, NTT DATA, Inc., said:

“Cloud and AI are central to enterprise transformation. Through our collaboration with AWS, we are helping clients move beyond experimentation to scale AI responsibly, delivering secure, industry-specific solutions that create tangible business value worldwide.”

Greg Pearson, VP AWS Global Sales, added:

“This collaboration enables enterprises to unlock the potential of cloud and AI, modernize operations, accelerate innovation, and meet evolving regulatory requirements, including through the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.”

Proven Success Example:
Honda Trading Asia successfully migrated to AWS with NTT DATA’s support, modernizing infrastructure and establishing a foundation for AI innovation. Somya Mayuraskoon, Director, Honda Trading Asia Co., Ltd., said:

“NTT DATA’s expertise ensured a smooth migration to AWS, unlocking new growth possibilities and AI innovation opportunities.”

Driving AI Innovation Across Industries:
NTT DATA will develop industry-specific, AI-driven cloud solutions across regulated and high-growth sectors, including:

• Financial Services: Modernizing core banking and compliance workloads.

• Healthcare & Life Sciences: Building secure AI-enabled data platforms for insights and research acceleration.

• Public Sector: Delivering compliant private cloud solutions for secure citizen services.

• Manufacturing & Automotive: Modernizing operations using generative and agentic AI for efficiency gains.

Innovation environments, including sandboxes and dedicated labs, will allow NTT DATA and AWS teams to develop, test, and scale solutions for enterprise adoption. This initiative also expands NTT DATA’s Smart AI Agent™ Ecosystem, enabling enterprises to deploy and manage responsible, business-driven AI at scale.