BP and Amazon have agreed to extend their longstanding relationship.
BP and Amazon have agreed to extend their longstanding relationship. BP will supply additional renewable energy to power Amazon’s operations, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) will help to accelerate BP’s programme to digitize its infrastructure and operations.
William Lin, BP’s executive vice president, regions, cities & solutions, said: ‘Our successful relationship supports both BP’s and Amazon’s ambitions to reduce our emissions and help our customers reduce theirs. Amazon is helping BP with innovative digital technologies and, using our trading capabilities and scale, we will give Amazon the reliable and flexible renewable energy supplies they need to meet their ambition to decarbonize.’
In a new series of clean power agreements, BP has agreed to more than triple the renewable power that it will supply Amazon in Europe.
BP will supply Amazon with an additional 404MW of wind power in Europe, starting in 2022-275MW sourced from a new wind project in Sweden and 129MW from two new wind projects in Scotland. This is in addition to the companies’ December 2019 agreement for BP to supply AWS in Europe with around 170MW of renewable power.
Building on their longstanding relationship, in December 2019 BP agreed to migrate over 900 key applications hosted in its European mega data centres to the AWS cloud.
One year on, the migration is running ahead of schedule with over 60% of BP’s European mega data centre workloads now migrated to the AWS cloud, including business-critical applications and trading platforms. By utilizing AWS’s services, data centres and cloud capabilities, BP can reduce energy use and emissions from its own digital infrastructure and data centres.
BP and Amazon are also collaborating on several artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning use cases, for example: using Talk2Me – an automated AI support system powered by Amazon Alexa – to reduce 40% of helpdesk calls in BP retail; migrating to the Amazon Aurora cloud database for BP trading; and modernizing the BP procurement and supply chain using Amazon QuickSight, a business intelligence tool powered by machine learning, to automatically track purchases and analyse spending trends.
As more data accumulates, repetitive tasks can be automated, optimizing costs and processes, and driving efficiencies.
‘BP and Amazon continue to see potential to further grow and deepen their relationship, increasing the benefits of digital innovation and support for achieving their common sustainability ambitions,’ said BP in a statement.
