Absa Group has strengthened its long-standing collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate its cloud migration journey, marking a pivotal step in its digital transformation strategy. The partnership reinforces Absa’s ambition to be a cloud-native, digitally powered financial institution, delivering more secure, agile, and customer-focused services across Africa.
AWS will serve as Absa’s preferred cloud provider, enabling the bank to modernize its infrastructure, enhance resilience, and introduce more personalized customer experiences. By leveraging AWS’s advanced technologies, Absa aims to fast-track innovation, improve operational agility, and expand secure digital offerings tailored to evolving customer expectations.
The collaboration goes beyond technology, reflecting a commitment to inclusive growth and digital skills development. Absa and AWS continue their joint support of the Women in Tech initiative, marking the third consecutive year of partnership in South Africa. This expanded program will provide 150 unemployed women across South Africa, Kenya, Botswana, Uganda, and Ghana with free AWS Cloud training and exam sponsorship to achieve AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification.
Johnson Idesoh, Absa’s Group Chief Information and Technology Officer, highlighted that moving more services to AWS will modernize the bank’s infrastructure, strengthen security, and accelerate innovation. AWS’s Tanuja Randery emphasized the broader impact of the partnership, noting how combining cloud technology with skills development initiatives helps foster both digital transformation and inclusive growth across the continent.
