Retail IT Transformation Solutions from AWS

Drive significant cost savings, faster innovation, and greater agility through cloud-based platform built for retailers.

Transforming Retail in the Cloud: A CIO’s Handbook

How can retailers mobilize their technological resources to capture emerging growth opportunities while competing in a rapidly changing market landscape. In this ebook, you will learn about a powerful new IT paradigm for retail—a Cloud Services Technology Framework.

Migrate expensive on-premise applications to the cloud, optimize costs, and innovate new IT solutions.
Retailers are looking to the cloud to avoid the undifferentiated heavy lifting of IT, and allow them to focus on delivering innovations to their customers. AWS and our partners help thousands of retailers adopt modern, cloud-based IT solutions; reducing time-to-market, improving security, and most importantly, facilitating business agility.

Benefits

Increase business agility
Innovate faster and scale when needed. AWS offers the broad set of global cloud-based products including compute, storage, analytics, IoT, and security.
Lower costs
AWS allows retailers to take advantage of the widest array of compute, storage, database, and analytics capabilities to optimize performance, innovate faster, and drive down operating costs of workloads.
IT automation
AWS provides many tools to automate IT like CI/CD processes, cloud formation templates, monitoring and alerting of cloud components, and security audits to make retailers more efficient and effective.
Enhanced security
Cloud security at AWS is the highest priority. As an AWS customer, you benefit from a data center and network architecture built to meet the requirements of the most security-sensitive organizations.

Redefine IT

Retail leadership may sometimes believe that IT is too slow or costly to meet the latest competitive threats and market demands in one of the world’s toughest industries. Our purpose-built solution and services will help your business successfully tackle these growing challenges.

SAP HANA

Accelerate transactional processing, operational reporting, OLAP, predictive and text analysis streamlining both transactional (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) processing.

Learn more »

AWS services

Move SAP workloads to the optimized EC2 instances with extra memory to support HANA.
Simplify and accelerate secure data migrations.
Use serverless, event-driven compute to reduce costs.
Discover and protect your sensitive data at scale.
Monitor your SAP implementation so you’re not surprised.
Augment SAP’s forecasting with machine learning from AWS.

Customer stories

We work with the industry’s leading retail companies - innovators and pioneers - who expect more from their technology partners and know that great experiences speak louder than words. Learn more about the exciting ways retail companies are leading their customer journeys with AWS.

Burberry logo

How Burberry is enabling digital transformation

How is one of the world’s most iconic brands leveraging technology to drive growth through inspired customer journeys that converge the experience between channels and stores? Learn how Burberry transformed its business through its digital foundation to redefine customer experiences and enable cloud-based business agility.

Watch the webinar »
stock image of business people
image of a race car in a manufacturing warehouse setting
Super Retail Group logo

Super Retail Group Enhances the Customer Experience by Moving SAP to the AWS Cloud

Super Retail Group (SRG), Australia's seventh largest retailer, needed its IT infrastructure to keep up with growing online demand. With Lemongrass, a Premier AWS Consulting Partner and an SAP on AWS Competency Partner, SRG optimized its core business and built strong ecommerce capabilities by migrating and using SAP on AWS.

Read the case study »

~ai-c2cd67b3-f1a3-4414-9249-77b4b0ee2996_
Mercado Libre logo

Mercado Libre Scales Its Business, Improves Reliability.

Ecommerce company Mercado Libre migrated 5,000 databases to Amazon DynamoDB as part of an infrastructure upgrade on AWS, using auto scaling to support company growth and generate cost savings.

Read the case study »

Hello Fresh box on a kitchen table with food
Hello Fresh logo

HelloFresh Delivers Meal Kits to Almost Seven Million Customers Globally

To support its global operations, the company has been using cloud solutions from AWS since 2014. By building its infrastructure in the cloud, HelloFresh can scale its application and website to meet the demand of millions of customers around the world.

Read the case study »

image of Ocado Group order on a hand held device
Ocado Group icon

Ocado Group Scales Up Innovation to Reimagine the Online Grocery Experience

Using AWS, Ocado Group operates a huge number of microservices on OSP. Running them in the cloud makes it possible to deal with spikes and fluctuations in the most resource-efficient way.

Read the case study »

Turn retail data into a competitive advantage. Read the guide on how to become a data-driven retailer.

Innovate with key industry partners

Discover purpose-built AWS Partner solutions for the IT and Core Applications on AWS through AWS Partner Network Retail Competency and AWS Marketplace.

New Relic logo

New Relic helps eCommerce site operators reduce risk of unexpected downtime, manage and prepare for bursting traffic and deliver insights to online visitors’ true experience when shopping online.

Learn more »

Scalefast logo

Scalefast is a headless, API-first eCommerce platform that allows brands to drive innovation in its online and international channels.

Learn more »

Infor logo

Infor builds cloud-based industry-specific business software that enables growth, reduces risk and supports global ambitions for leading organizations in every industry.

Learn more »

SAP logo

SAP helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition.

Learn more »

Datadog logo

Datadog is a monitoring service for cloud-scale applications, bringing together data from servers, databases, tools and services to present a unified view of your entire stack.

Learn more »

Cisco Systems logo

The only agentless solution that provides distributed, automated tracing of every request in a transaction, Epsagon allows users to monitor and troubleshoot issues in microservice environments. 

Learn more »

AWS Service Partners

Our network of AWS Service Partners offers strategy and deployment services to retail brands to accelerate digital transformation and innovation.

Accenture logo

Accenture is a global professional services company that helps companies by innovating around industry-specific functions and capabilities to provide clients with speed-to-value.

Learn more »

Deloitte logo

Deloitte retail technology helps to mobilize data and insights to optimize customer experiences, create operational efficiencies, improve product pricing, and inform management decisions.

Learn more »

Slalom logo

Backed by regional innovation hubs, a global culture of collaboration, and partnerships with the world’s top technology providers, Slalom is a modern consulting firm focused on strategy, technology, and business transformation.

Learn more »

PwC logo

PwC delivers a breadth of experience, industry knowledge and a global network of resources to guide customers through cloud transformation that help drive agility and strategic impact.

Learn more »

AWS Marketplace

Retail solutions from AWS Partners are also available on AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog of third-party software, services, and data that makes it easy to find, buy, deploy, and manage software on AWS.

Resources

See related guides, brochures, blogs, and much more.

Featured Blog

A New IT Paradigm for Retailers: The Cloud Services Technology Framework

The retail industry has long suffered from anemic investments in information technology that have saddled many companies with aging IT systems unable to keep up with rapidly changing customer demands and market dynamics. Industry CIOs and CTOs have been searching for a solution, and many have found an answer: A new retailer application architecture offering a powerful and agile approach to driving business innovation.

Retail Cloud Services Technology Framework thumbnail
RISE with SAP on AWS
Solution Brief

RISE with SAP on Amazon Web Services

Are you looking for a fully managed offering to support your path to SAP S/4HANA? Accelerate your ERP transformation while reducing the cost and complexity of maintenance with RISE with SAP on AWS.

Download the solution brief »

A guide to modernizing with SAP ECC-based systems on AWS: Drive new business value from your existing SAP investments
ebook

A guide to modernizing with SAP ECC-based systems on AWS

SAP modernization doesn’t have to be an all or nothing proposition. Even if SAP S/4HANA is not part of your immediate technology roadmap, you can start your ERP transformation with the systems you already have in place by moving them to Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Download the ebook »

woman online shopping on phone
Blog

How AWS Can Help CPG Companies Gain Value from SAP Investments

Learn why AWS is the platform of choice for consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies to run their SAP environments like Dole, Del Monte, Swire Coca-Cola, The Kellogg's Company, Under Armour, and E&J Gallow Winery.

Read the blog »

digital phone use
Partner Resource Center

Accelerate your digital transformation with help from AWS Retail Competency Partners

Access case studies, webinars, videos and eBooks demonstrating how AWS and our partners are enabling digital transformation in Retail.

Learn more »

Get started

Leading companies in retail are already using AWS. Contact our experts and start your own AWS Cloud journey today.
Retail shopping bag