Source: ©PITER2121 – STOCK.ADOBE.COM CHICAGO — Snacks and confections giant Mondelez International has tapped Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s infrastructure technology subsidiary, as its primary provider of cloud computing services. Chicago-based Mondelez said the partnership will spur digital innovation across the company, with the AWS cloud infrastructure and services bringing more security, agility, cost efficiency and reliability to operations. The transition to AWS also is expected to bolster Mondelez’s artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities and enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, now being migrated to the SAP RISE platform powered by AWS. So far, Mondelez said it has “already migrated hundreds of workloads” to the AWS cloud platform. “A key focus of our growth strategy is our digital transformation,” said Kostas Georgakopoulos, chief technology officer and chief information security officer at Mondelez. “AWS is a strategic partner complementing our own internal cloud platform engineering capabilities to lead digital transformation across the enterprise.” The shift to AWS will accelerate the move to the SAP RISE ERP platform, which is expected to deliver improved performance, reliability, resiliency, security and AI functionality for business systems and insights, according to Mondelez. In July, Mondelez’s board of directors approved $1.2 billion in funding for a multi-year […]