BlackRock, Visa, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have announced partnerships aimed at expanding cloud hosting and AI-driven capabilities for financial institutions and payment services.
AWS will host BlackRock’s investment management platform, Aladdin, giving clients additional options for deployment.
Aladdin, which firms widely use for portfolio management and risk analytics, operates independently of any single cloud provider.
Sudhir Nair, Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Aladdin at BlackRock, said,
“The Aladdin platform is built to be cloud-agnostic, and Aladdin on AWS is a key step in enabling multi-cloud functionality. By expanding Aladdin to AWS, we are giving clients more choice in where and how they deploy their technology ecosystem.”
Scott Mullins, Managing Director of Worldwide Financial Services at AWS, added,
“With Aladdin running on AWS, clients gain access to secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure for advanced risk modeling, enterprise-grade analytics, and smart investment decision-making, while maintaining the highest security standards.”
Amazon Treasury will be among the first adopters of Aladdin on AWS to manage Amazon’s global investment portfolio.
General availability for Aladdin Enterprise clients hosted in the United States is expected in the second half of 2026.
Separately, Visa and AWS are collaborating to enable AI agents to transact securely and autonomously on behalf of users.
The partnership combines Visa’s payment infrastructure with AWS’s AI and cloud capabilities.
It aims to simplify commerce and help developers create intelligent workflows for retail, travel, and payments.
Amazon will publish open blueprints on the Bedrock AgentCore repository, enabling developers to build AI agents that handle multi-step transactions such as product discovery, secure checkout, and order tracking.
Rubail Birwadker, SVP and Global Head of Growth at Visa, said,
“Visa Intelligent Commerce is designed to be the trust layer for the agent economy. With AWS’s scalable cloud capabilities and Visa’s global payment network, Visa Intelligent Commerce enables AI agents to transact securely and contextually at scale.”
The collaboration includes industry partners such as Expedia Group, Intuit, lastminute.com, and Eurostars Hotel Company, working together to develop practical applications for AI-driven transactions across sectors.
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