SEATTLE—August 30, 2024—Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced that Gold Fields, a global gold producer with operations across several continents has migrated its end-to-end SAP and treasury systems to AWS as part of its digital transformation strategy. This collaboration has enabled Gold Fields to modernize technology infrastructure, while enabling AWS’s analytics, machine learning (ML), and generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to unlock future insights that will improve operational efficiency, enhance workplace safety, and become a more data-driven business.

"AWS is helping us modernize our infrastructure, improve our governance, and drive cost efficiencies," said Strini Mudaly, group ICT vice president at Gold Fields. "We selected AWS as our cloud provider of choice, based on its proven operational experience at scale and commitment to innovation. We are excited to continue our journey with AWS, leveraging its expertise and cutting-edge solutions to transform our business."

“Deloitte partnered with Gold Fields and AWS to migrate the Global Gold Fields SAP estates across three continents to the AWS cloud. By bringing together a multi-disciplinary team of dedicated Deloitte experts working across multiple time zones, we ensured every aspect of the migration, including data privacy, regulatory and technology was handled with precision and expertise, delivering a seamless, zero-business-impact transition,” said Aasif Karachi, director and Africa AWS leader at Deloitte Consulting. “Leveraging AWS’s secure and scalable infrastructure, this migration has reduced operational costs and enhanced data processing speeds across critical group systems, all while upholding Gold Fields strong governance and risk management standards.”

"Our collaboration with Gold Fields showcases the transformative power of cloud technology in the mining sector, said Chris Erasmus, AWS country general manager. “By migrating its critical SAP systems to AWS, Gold Fields is now poised to modernize its platform and unlock the full potential of its internal data, applying advanced analytics and machine learning."

Operating its SAP systems on AWS will enable Gold Fields to harness next-generation technology and data insight capabilities to support the future business strategy. Additionally, Gold Fields is exploring AWS's Industrial Data Fabric and Generative AI capabilities to enhance data management practices, and support safety and process improvements in an ever-evolving industry.

About Amazon Web Services
Since 2006, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any workload, and it now has more than 240 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, media, and application development, deployment, and management from 108 Availability Zones within 34 geographic regions, with announced plans for 18 more Availability Zones and six more AWS Regions in Mexico, New Zealand, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Thailand, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.

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About Gold Fields
Gold Fields Limited operates as a gold producer with reserves and resources in Chile, South Africa, Ghana, Canada, Australia, and Peru. It also explores for copper and silver deposits. The company was founded in 1887 and is based in Sandton, South Africa.

About Deloitte
Deloitte enables enterprise transformation through innovative applications of cloud. Combining business acumen, integrated business and technology services, and a people-first approach, we help businesses discover and activate their possible.