Telefónica expands its strategic collaboration with Amazon for cloud development and the digital home

Press Release

By Telefónica

Telefónica strengthens its strategic collaboration with Amazon and reaches a new global agreement to drive the digital transformation of the business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) worlds. Through this agreement, Telefónica Tech and Amazon Web Services (AWS) will invest in joint go-to-market activities, develop new cloud solutions, and expand AWS cloud skills and capabilities of Telefonica Tech’s professionals to better support customers in their journey to the cloud.  In addition, Movistar Fusión customers will enjoy an innovative TV-commerce experience with the Movistar Plus+ Living App ‘Selección Hogar de Movistar’.

This agreement includes a joint go-to-market proposition with AWS with the aim to bring innovation to customers faster and to help them better leverage the agility of the cloud. Telefónica Tech will also provide its enterprise, SMB and public sector customers with native professional services on AWS at any stage of their cloud journey, offering support through the various stages of platform assessment, design and deployment, and migration.

Telefónica Tech and AWS are committed to fostering innovation in the cloud. Telefónica Tech plans to launch several value-added solutions such as edge computing and cloud native private 5G networks that run on AWS Outposts. This collaboration will open up new opportunities in 5G and use cases for edge computing, machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), video and game streaming and Industry 4.0.

In addition, Telefónica Tech will continue to expand its managed and professional services with the creation of an AWS competence centre that will use best practices recommended by AWS to help customers transition to the cloud in a fast and secure way. This AWS competence centre will offer new services relating to cost optimisation, devops and automation, application modernisation and other cloud related capabilities. Telefónica Tech currently has a qualified team of around 4,000 expert professionals serving the Telefónica Group’s 5.5 million B2B customers in 175 countries.

The new agreement with AWS will allow Telefónica Tech to train and certify hundreds of its professionals in the services and best practices of AWS’s cloud services with the aim of supporting Telefónica customers during their migration to the cloud. To this end, Telefónica Tech will expand its capabilities and become an AWS Premier Consulting Partner and will acquire other technical competencies such as AWS Managed Services Provider and AWS Migration Acceleration Program.

Jose Cerdán, CEO of Telefónica Tech, said: “This agreement with AWS strengthens our partnership and allows us to go to market with a comprehensive and cutting-edge proposition. Our customers demand greater innovation in the design of cloud solutions and demand to use AWS services from the most appropriate location. The professional and managed services that Telefónica Tech will offer will therefore be key to helping companies in this complex process of adopting the public cloud with edge locations.”

Adolfo Hernandez, Vice President Global Telco Industry, AWS, said: “We are excited to work with Telefónica to bring our successful collaboration to the next level and build out customer-centric solutions on AWS, especially on 5G and edge computing. This collaboration means AWS can bring the highest level of cloud native expertise to an even wider audience with Telefónica, significantly accelerating the pace of innovation and cloud adoption.