BT’s digital unit has signed a five-year agreement with AWS to help transform its legacy infrastructure and internal applications into a new cloud-first architecture.
The agreement between the pair will enable BT to fast-track its plan to build and innovate faster on a new suite of digital products and services and reduce costs in IT maintenance.
“We have a big opportunity when it comes to modernising our infrastructure, and our collaboration with AWS is a key one for us as we deliver the transformation needed to accelerate BT,” said Thomas Dücke, COO at BT Digital.
The deal is one element of BTs broader modernisation programme that aims to deliver savings of £2bn by the end of FY24, as BT seeks to retire legacy applications, associated infrastructure, and data centres.
“BT’s move to cloud-first applications can help reduce IT maintenance costs, streamline operations and help it better adapt to evolving customer needs,” added Adolfo Hernandez, VP and GM of telecom global industry business unit at AWS. “Plus, the AWS pay-as-you-go model offers flexibility so BT only pays for the IT needed.”
During the next five years, BT said it plans to continue to make significant investments and use AWS technology to accelerate its digital transformation with a particular focus on application workloads via containers and serverless technologies.
