Borusan Group Partners with Amazon Web Services to Accelerate Global Growth
Foreks - The Borusan Group, one of Turkey's leading industrial conglomerates, has announced a strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enhance its activities in various sectors as a strong player in both local and global markets for 80 years. The comprehensive collaboration, focusing on Borusan's digital transformation, operational efficiency, and global growth targets, aims to maximize the utilization of cloud technologies across Borusan’s various business units and digitize its operations.
Today, Borusan Group operates across 5 main sectors: automotive, logistics, energy, manufacturing, machinery, and power systems in 12 different countries across 3 continents, through its companies such as Borusan Otomotiv, ParçaPazarı, Borusan Lojistik, Borusan Limanı, Borusan EnBW Enerji, Borusan Boru, Borçelik, Supsan, and Borusan Cat. Having achieved global success in various sectors, Borusan Group is making significant technology investments to enhance its sustainable growth and competitive power in global markets.
At the core of Borusan Group's digital transformation strategy is the pursuit of flexibility, cost optimization, and security through cloud infrastructure. In this context, the extensive range of services and solutions offered by AWS, known for scalability, innovation leadership, flexibility, security, and cost-effectiveness on a global scale, provides the technological infrastructure Borusan needs in its digital transformation process while supporting its growth targets in global markets with its global data centers. The AWS cloud infrastructure not only modernizes the Group's operational processes but also enables improvements in business processes with innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the Internet of Things (IoT), while contributing to Borusan Holding’s environmental goals by enhancing operational efficiency in renewable energy projects.
Key AWS services that Borusan Group will utilize include Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), which allows for the creation and management of virtual servers suited for various workloads. With Amazon S3, Borusan will benefit from data storage and processing capabilities, alongside high availability and security advantages. The serverless computing service AWS Lambda will enable the Group to automatically run its applications and utilize resources only when transactions occur, while Amazon RDS will facilitate quick and secure database management in the cloud environment. Other services Borusan will use, such as Amazon SageMaker, will assist in creating AI applications for big data projects, while Amazon RedShift will allow for the rapid and efficient analysis of millions of data points. Additionally, AWS IoT Core will support the management of Borusan’s IoT devices and data processing, while AWS Glue will enable data integration between different data sources.
Deniz Emre DAĞ, Deputy General Manager of Strategy and Business Development at Borusan Holding, stated, “As a Group, we have been advancing with a Cloud first strategy for over 5 years, but this year we have opened a new chapter together with AWS. Now, we will be in a position to select the most suitable environment and competencies for both the new applications we will develop and our existing workloads. This will provide us with significant flexibility. It is very valuable to have the power of AWS by our side in our Cloud transformation, which we plan to accelerate with the support of new KVKK regulations in the coming period.”
Yaşar Sarcan, Group Director of IT Infrastructure & Information Security at Borusan Holding, remarked, “As a group operating in various sectors, we have long been successfully managing our digital transformation processes by leveraging the power of cloud technologies. Responding to our changing business needs with the same technological flexibility and agility is a fundamental part of our digital transformation strategy. With our cooperation with AWS, we aim to enhance operational efficiency while establishing a strong infrastructure based on innovative technologies, thereby increasing our flexibility, cost efficiency, and technological diversity, and becoming more competitive in global markets.”
Burak Aydın, General Manager of AWS Turkey, expressed, “We are pleased to support one of Turkey's leading groups like Borusan Holding in harnessing the potential of cloud computing. We believe that this collaboration will draw more attention to the advantages of cloud services and serve as an example for other organizations. As AWS, we will continue to support companies in Turkey to carry out work that will contribute to enhancing our country's global competitive power.”