Novo Nordisk and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have announced a strategic partnership to accelerate drug discovery and modernise Novo Nordisk’s operations through agentic AI and cloud technologies. As part of the partnership, Novo Nordisk and AWS have created a co-innovation hub in London where engineers and scientists from both companies are using AWS AI technologies alongside Novo Nordisk data and insights to compress the path from drug target to first human dose.

Mike Doustdar, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Novo Nordisk, said, “Partnering with AWS is about making AI a driver of innovation across Novo Nordisk. By combining our scientific expertise with AWS’ tools and purpose-built services for the life sciences industry, while also creating a dedicated co-innovation hub within our existing facility in London, we are accelerating discovery and developing responsible AI solutions that will create real progress for people living with serious chronic diseases.”

Novo Nordisk has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider and strategic AI partner, bringing together Novo Nordisk's deep therapeutic knowledge across chronic diseases and AWS's world-leading cloud and AI services, secure and scalable infrastructure, and life sciences technologies.

This new agreement builds on a longstanding relationship and will create the secure foundations needed to turn ideas into new therapies for patients around the world. This includes using services such as Amazon Bio Discovery and Amazon Bedrock to identify drug targets, design new therapies faster, and connect genomic, imaging and clinical data so that breakthroughs in early research can shape clinical trial design. Novo Nordisk will also leverage Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to drive efficiencies across its operations through AI agents.

Matt Garman, CEO, AWS, said, "Every part of our work with Novo Nordisk comes back to one thing: getting the right medicine to patients, faster. Novo Nordisk has chosen AWS as their strategic AI partner to fundamentally change how medicines are discovered and developed using services such as Amazon Bio Discovery and Amazon Bedrock. We’re excited to partner with Novo Nordisk so that these technologies, AWS Forward Deployed Engineers, and Novo Nordisk’s industry-leading science teams can help compress drug discovery timelines, securely process complex datasets, and scale findings across therapeutic areas.”