‘The AI era is moving even faster than the cloud era, and the next two decades of our partnership will be defined by deeper co-innovation and shared responsibility for customers’ enterprise reinvention,’ says Chris Wegmann, Accenture’s AWS business leader.
AWS and Accenture are doubling down on their AI co-innovation, sovereign cloud models and public sector customers as the two technology giants’ 16-year partnership is moving faster than ever.
“The AI era is moving even faster than the cloud era,” Chris Wegmann, CTO and practice managing director of Accenture’s AWS Business Group, told CRN. “And the next two decades of our partnership will be defined by deeper co-innovation and shared responsibility for customers’ enterprise reinvention.”
Accenture’s roughly 780,000 global employees now include over 20,000 AWS-certified professionals with 30,000 AWS credentials.
“We are no longer just deploying technology [together]—we’re co-developing industry-specific AI-powered solutions with AWS that help our clients move faster from innovation to transformational impact,” Wegmann said.
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Wegmann has spent nearly 28 years at the $72 billion solution provider powerhouse, including the past decade managing Accenture’s AWS Business Group.
Wegmann said his group is combining AWS cloud and AI services with Accenture’s innovation to make early cloud adoption customers “among the first to scale AI” using the same foundation to reinvent faster.
The priority right now is helping customers who haven’t modernized their workloads to do so “with urgency, as cloud migration is now a prerequisite for AI at scale,” Wegmann said.
“Whether it’s through internal tools like Kiro or our joint AWS Transform initiatives, the next chapter of Accenture and AWS is about moving from innovation to transformational impact,” he said.
Accenture And AWS Boost Public Sector And Defense Technology Partnership
Accenture and AWS recently expanded their technology collaboration to boost transformative services to public sector, defense and national security organizations.
Via Wegmann’s AWS Business Group, the two companies are now working on building new solutions that use cloud and AI services to reduce operating costs, optimize resource allocation, and improve the quality of citizen services and defense capabilities.
“We expect digital sovereignty to become increasingly critical,” Wegmann said. “Our joint work—including support for sovereign cloud models—will help organizations adopt cloud and AI while maintaining control, compliance and trust.”
Big Focus Areas For AWS And Accenture In 2026
The big areas of the revamped partnership include helping defense and national security customers rapidly deploy cloud solutions on AWS infrastructure that feature zero-trust architectures, edge computing for complex environments, and supply chain optimization capabilities that let defense agencies modernize legacy systems while maintaining security standards.
Another key investment between Accenture and AWS is creating new generative AI and agentic offerings that increase public sector productivity by automating tasks and entire processes.
Lastly, the two IT titans are building solutions for social services and health care via custom AI-powered case management and data analytics platforms.
The goal is to enable faster benefit determinations, improve service delivery through predictive analytics, and modernize systems for social benefits and employment programs while maintaining data privacy controls.
Accenture And AWS’ 16-Year History And ‘Powerhouse’ Partnership
The two technology powerhouses have partnered for over 16 years, with a major milestone occurring in 2015 with the launch of Accenture’s AWS Business Group.
“This joint team fundamentally changed how enterprises adopt cloud—synchronizing strategy, engineering and operations into one powerhouse,” said Wegmann, looking back at the formation of the business group.
“Those clients who built their core on AWS are now positioned to capture the benefits of generative AI faster,” he said.
In 2025, Accenture won the AWS Global Consulting Partner of the Year award as well as the Global Migration Consulting Partner of the Year Award.
“As a longtime AWS customer ourselves, we’ve built our own global business platforms on the very cloud technology we deliver to our clients,” he said. “Accenture doesn’t just advise on AWS—we run on it.”
