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2025 / United Kingdom

Legal & General Sustainably Transforms Operational Efficiency with Generative AI on AWS

L&G Retail is the UK market leader in life insurance, workplace pensions, and retirement income, supporting savings, protection, and retirement needs.

In a nutshell

Part of Legal & General (L&G), a leading UK financial services group and global investor, L&G Retail uses generative AI on AWS to better serve its customers. Additionally, the company has engaged the AWS Well-Architected Framework Sustainability Pillar to reduce the carbon footprint of its applications.

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By the numbers

1,000s
of documents processed concurrently in 30 minutes
5.2
million pensioners served

Business opportunity

L&G Retail has earned a reputation for innovation, using machine learning and AI to automate document processing and reduce employee workloads. Now, the business is enhancing customer experiences through generative AI on AWS and increasing sustainability by reducing the carbon footprint of its applications.

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The solution

L&G Retail is building on its capability to deliver innovative machine learning solutions such as document management using Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Textract to automate document processing, classification, and data extraction. More recently, the company has begun using Amazon Bedrock to improve customer experiences and the AWS Well-Architected Framework Sustainability Pillar to reduce the carbon footprint of its applications. 

One of the six pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, the Sustainability Pillar has helped L&G Retail learn architectural best practices for designing and operating secure, reliable, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable workloads in the AWS Cloud. The framework also provides L&G Retail with a way to consistently measure its application architecture against best practices and identify areas for improvement.

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Meet Tariq Surty, Director of IT

What Excites Tariq about his role?
A deep-rooted desire to drive initiatives that deliver transformative change and a passion for innovation that challenges the status quo.

Tariq’s source of inspiration
"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." - Maya Angelou

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We’ve learned how to manage, train, and maintain ML models, and we’re in a great place to use generative AI for new use cases, which is really exciting…and importantly, for our sustainability goals, we are now learning how we can reduce the carbon footprint of our applications.

Tariq Surty

Director of IT , Legal & General

Meet Vamsi Bhogireddy, Green IT Practitioner, SRE and Devops Advocate

What Excites Vamsi about his role?
A pivotal figure in L&G Technology for over a decade, Vamsi is a staunch proponent of sustainable operations and IT, aligning these goals with the business growth strategies of L&G Retail. 

Vamsi’s source of inspiration
Putting the human at the center of innovation in every way to ensure great customer outcomes and fulfilling experiences for developers, and to improve sustainability for the planet! 

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