(Copenhagen - TM Forum DTW Ignite - June 18, 2024): Telenor Group today
announced it will expand its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to
advance its sovereign cloud posture by using AWS's sovereign-by-design
technology, and leveraging Telenor's strategic investment in Skygard
(https://www.telenor.com/media/newsroom/announcement/telenor-hafslund-and-
hitecvision-announces-2-4-billion-nok-investment-in-oslo-data-center/).
Currently under construction, Skygard is state-of-the-art secure and energy
efficient data centres that Telenor is building with its partners in Norway.
In the first year of extended collaboration, Telenor will invest approx. 100M
NOK in its sovereign cloud posture by using AWS and Skygard's state-of-the-art
data centre. Telenor and AWS will collaborate to offer solutions to Norwegian
enterprise customers, help to address their key sovereignty and security
requirements. Telenor will explore leveraging the same sovereign-by-design AWS
infrastructure to host its internal workloads in compliance with Norwegian
regulatory requirements.
As the only truly Nordic telco, Telenor will accelerate the modernisation of
telecommunications industry, by further scaling its cloud footprint in Telenor
Sweden, using advanced and secure cloud technologies from AWS. Telenor will also
expand the collaboration to Finland. The modernisation program would transform
current IT and technology infrastructure and data centre costs, while improving
customer experience, through better performance, faster time-to-market - all
whilst meeting the highest security standards.
"Telenor is strengthening its collaboration with AWS to power our next wave of
growth and innovation," said Amol Phadke, EVP and Group Chief Technology Officer
of Telenor. "Building on our sovereign cloud posture, Telenor will unlock new
opportunities to drive value for our customers and wider society."
"Telenor and AWS have a shared commitment to innovation", said Jan Hofmeyr, VP
AWS EC2 Edge. "We are excited to strengthen our collaboration by accelerating
Telenor's cloud transformation on AWS, and modernize Telenor's data centres with
AWS infrastructure, starting with Sweden and Finland."
Media contact:
David Fidjeland, Director Media Relations, Telenor Group
+47 93 46 72 24 | david.fidjeland@telenor.com
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