Wells Fargo announces multi-cloud digital infrastructure strategy, led by Microsoft Azure

Wells Fargo announced a new digital infrastructure strategy to focus on multi-cloud and third-party datacenters, teaming up with Microsoft and Google. The company will use Microsoft Azure to create solutions across bank branches for strategic business workloads and carry out advanced analytics.

"Wells Fargo and Microsoft have a longstanding relationship, and we are excited to build on that foundation to accelerate Wells Fargo’s digital transformation journey. Microsoft Azure is empowering financial services institutions with its secure, compliant, and scalable platform for industry cloud solutions needs, including for advanced and complex workloads. By standardizing on the Microsoft cloud and trusting Azure as its most strategic and primary cloud platform across all lines of business, Wells Fargo will be able to advance its key business and technology transformation priorities across core areas like managing risk and control, personalized banking, and the digital branch of the future," stated Judson Althoff, Microsoft’s Chief Commercial Officer.