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Novo Nordisk taps AWS as preferred cloud provider, launches London AI drug discovery hub

Novo Nordisk taps AWS as preferred cloud provider, launches London AI drug discovery hub

Novo Nordisk (Copenhagen: NOVO B) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a strategic partnership that establishes AWS as Novo Nordisk's preferred cloud provider and names the two companies as co-founders of a joint AI innovation hub in London, where engineers and scientists from both organizations will work to compress the timeline from drug target identification to first human dose.

The partnership deploys AWS cloud and agentic AI services — including Amazon Bio Discovery and Amazon Bedrock — across Novo Nordisk's drug discovery workflows, enabling integration of genomic, imaging, and clinical datasets to accelerate target identification and therapy design. Novo Nordisk said it will also use Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to drive operational efficiencies across its broader business. The company reported that the collaboration has already produced measurable results, including reduced clinical documentation time and productivity gains for more than 25,000 employees, the company said.

Financial terms were not disclosed. The agreement covers Novo Nordisk's operations globally, with the London co-innovation hub serving as the physical anchor for joint research and development activities.

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The AWS agreement follows Novo Nordisk's partnership with OpenAI announced in April 2026, under which Novo Nordisk integrated OpenAI's AI tools enterprise-wide across drug discovery, manufacturing, and commercial operations, with full integration targeted by end of 2026. Novo Nordisk has also previously contracted with the Danish Centre for AI Innovation (DCAI) for access to the Gefion AI supercomputer, and in January 2025 expanded its AI-driven cardiometabolic drug discovery collaboration with Valo Health to cover up to 20 programs, with Valo eligible for up to USD 4.6 billion in milestone payments. AWS, for its part, has an established track record as a pharma AI infrastructure provider, having previously partnered with Flagship Pioneering in April 2026 to provide cloud and AI services to Flagship's portfolio of life sciences companies, and participating as a supporting member in the OpenFold AI research consortium alongside Novo Nordisk, Bristol Myers Squibb, and Roche.


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