The two companies will further explore opportunities across PepsiCo’s digital supply chain, including predictive maintenance in both manufacturing and logistics.
PepsiCo, Inc. has signed a multi-year agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS). The American multinational food, snack, and beverage corporation will migrate its applications and workloads to AWS’ cloud platform as part of its “cloud-first” strategy.
“A cloud-first approach has been essential to PepsiCo’s ongoing digital transformation,” said Athina Kanioura, Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer at PepsiCo.
“This strategic collaboration will strengthen our mature cloud strategy and unlock new levels of agility, intelligence, and scalability across the company.”
The agreement spans PepsiCo’s global operations and lines of business. In addition to migrating to AWS, PepsiCo plans to integrate its internal generative AI platform with Amazon Bedrock, giving PepsiCo developers access to a choice of multi-modal foundation models and Agentic AI capabilities.
The two companies will further explore opportunities across PepsiCo’s digital supply chain, including predictive maintenance in both manufacturing and logistics.
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“Consumer packaged goods companies need to continuously innovate to meet the evolving expectations of consumers,” said Matt Garman, CEO at AWS.
“With AWS, PepsiCo is applying AI and using cloud services across their organization to deliver more personalized consumer experiences, optimize supply chains, and build new operational capabilities. We’re proud to support PepsiCo as they innovate to serve billions of consumers worldwide.”
PepsiCo was formed in 1965 with the merger of the Pepsi-Cola Company and Frito-Lay, Inc and is perhaps most well known for its namesake product Pepsi though now comprises several brands and products. The company generated nearly $91 billion in net revenue in 2024.
PepsiCo was previously a customer of Hewlett-Packard, having signed an agreement with HP in 2006 to provide PepsiCo with data centre management services and infrastructure consolidation.
PepsiCo’s Kanioura previously detailed in an interview with CIO.com the company’s partnership with Microsoft. As of December 2022, PepsiCo had moved 5,000 applications to Microsoft Azure.
PepsiCo rival CocaCola relies on Microsoft’s cloud and AI services, having signed a $1.1 billion five-year contract with the cloud giant in 2024. Coca-Cola previously had a data centre in Atlanta, where the company is headquartered.
In 2009, it was in discussions with HP to outsource its data centre operations. The company sold its Atlanta data centre in 2017 to Rackhouse as part of its cloud migration plan. At that time, Coca-Cola was a customer of Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud.
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