As part of its Forward ’28 strategy, Danske Bank is expanding its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate the rollout of AI-enabled banking services and products and increase productivity across the organisation.

Under the new agreement, Danske Bank will partner with AWS to modernise IT systems, strengthen its cloud and data foundations, and optimise how technology is developed and delivered across the bank.

“Following the recent update to our Forward ’28 strategy, our ambition to support customers through the latest technology is stronger than ever. This agreement gives us early access to AWS innovations in Cloud and AI, as well as global engineering expertise. We are already seeing the benefits in how we develop the products and services our customers want, and I expect that value to grow further,” says Frans Woelders, Chief Operating Officer, Danske Bank.

A key part of this next phase is expanded co-innovation, a way of working that has already proven valuable in building the migration platform that has been moving the bank's applications to the cloud at a rapid pace. That same approach is now being applied to key generative AI initiatives. Exception-based services is an early example, where capabilities developed with the business are becoming reusable components for other central AI projects. This shortens the path from idea to scalable, governed delivery across the bank.

"We work closely with Danske Bank across a wide range of areas. The first phase focused on building cloud and data foundations to support their bold ambition. With this extended partnership, we'll bring the choice, security, and scale of Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to power AI-enabled banking services. Danske Bank will have access to hundreds of AI models, enterprise-grade data protection, and a fully managed platform that scales from experimentation to production," says Tanuja Randery, Vice President and Managing Director, EMEA, AWS.

Danske Bank looks forward to collaborating with AWS to unlock even more value from cloud, data, and AI across the organisation to the benefit of customers and colleagues.