AWS, GE Digital Partner for Utility Grid Modernization

GE Digital and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are partnering to help utility organizations more rapidly modernize their power grids. The relationship involves GE Digital's new grid operating system software -- known as GridOS -- paired with various AWS services.

Take a closer look, and GE Digital’s Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) software will support the pure AWS cloud service as well as AWS Outposts -- which delivers the AWS cloud capabilities as an on-premises service. Early adopters include Vector Ltd., a distributor of electricity and gas in New Zealand.

Key executives quoted in the announcement include:

•  Mahesh Sudhakaran, general manager of Grid Software at GE Digital.
• Howard Gefen, general manager for Energy and Utilities at AWS.

GE GridOS has a partner ecosystem for global solution integrators and hyperscalers to "help utilities advance IT and OT alignment, adopt hybrid cloud, develop new applications on the GridOS platform, and accelerate transformation to a scalable and flexible grid built for change."

Additional GridOS partners beyond AWS include Accenture and Infosys.

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