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ArcelorMittal is bringing cloud computing and artificial intelligence directly to the steel plant floor, a move that could reshape how the world's second-largest steelmaker operates across 14 countries.
ArcelorMittal on Monday announced a strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services to automate global manufacturing operations by integrating AWS cloud and AI capabilities into its steelmaking processes. The partnership, which also includes a multi-year supply framework agreement for lower-carbon XCarb steel across Europe and the UK, targets improvements in safety, asset reliability and energy efficiency across the company's 60-country footprint.
"By converging our operational and information technology on a single secure platform, we are moving to digitally enabled operations — safer for our people, more reliable in output, and more sustainable by design," Nik Puri, Group CIO and CISO at ArcelorMittal, said. "This is how we industrialize AI at scale across the steelmaking value chain."
Under the deal, ArcelorMittal will converge some of its operational technology and information technology on AWS infrastructure, extending cloud and AI to the edge of its production environments. Using AWS services across industrial IoT, real-time sensor data and machine learning, the company will deploy AI at the point of production for predictive maintenance on furnaces and industrial installations, computer-vision quality control, process optimization and digital twins of its physical assets and production lines.
AWS will also design and deliver a comprehensive education program for ArcelorMittal's global workforce to advance digital and AI adoption at scale.
The cloud-industrial frontier
The collaboration signals AWS's deepening push into heavy industry, a sector that has lagged behind finance, retail and media in cloud adoption. Steelmaking, which generated ArcelorMittal $61.4 billion in revenue in 2025 on 55.6 million metric tonnes of crude steel output, involves extreme heat, continuous casting and complex logistics — environments where real-time AI optimization can yield significant cost savings.
Tanuja Randery, Managing Director and Vice President for EMEA at AWS, said the partnership rethinks how steelmaking works. "By bringing AI to the point of production, they are creating new ways of running safer, more efficient operations across steelmaking sites in 14 countries," she said.
The supply framework agreement adds a second dimension to the partnership. Amazon will purchase lower-carbon XCarb steel from ArcelorMittal for use in Amazon operations facilities and AWS data centers, supporting Amazon's goal to reach net-zero carbon by 2040. The arrangement mirrors similar green steel procurement deals across the tech sector as hyperscalers face mounting pressure to decarbonize their physical infrastructure.
What it means for investors
For ArcelorMittal, the partnership addresses two structural challenges: operational efficiency in a low-margin commodity business and the need to differentiate on carbon intensity as European steel buyers increasingly demand lower-emission materials. For AWS, the deal opens a new vertical — industrial manufacturing — where cloud penetration remains below 20 percent in most sub-sectors, according to industry estimates. The education program also creates a long-term lock-in effect: as ArcelorMittal's workforce trains on AWS tools, switching costs rise.
ArcelorMittal shares traded higher on the news. The company generated $61.4 billion in revenue in 2025, producing 55.6 million metric tonnes of crude steel and 48.8 million tonnes of iron ore.
This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice.
