Celonis and AWS partner to optimize business operations
Celonis and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have expanded their collaboration in a move designed to help enterprises accelerate the deployment of AI agents by providing them with real-time operational context about how business processes actually function.
Key to the integration is connecting the Celonis Process Intelligence platform directly to data stored in Amazon S3 without needing to copy or migrate that data into separate systems first.
Celonis said the partnership addresses one of the biggest challenges facing enterprise AI deployments: large language models often lack an understanding of how real-world business operations flow across systems, departments, and workflows.
The integration uses the Iceberg REST Catalog to allow the Celonis Process Intelligence Graph to read live data stored in Amazon S3. By enriching this raw data with operational context, companies create a living digital twin of their business operations.
This process-centric foundation can then be fed into Amazon Bedrock to build and deploy production-ready AI agents that understand how the business actually flows.
According to Celonis, directly querying data in Amazon S3 can deliver between five and 10 times faster end-to-end data pipeline performance compared to traditional extraction and replication approaches.
The company also said the architecture reduces data duplication, lowers storage costs, minimizes synchronization issues, and simplifies governance by maintaining a single source of truth inside AWS environments.
Dan Brown (pictured), Chief Product Officer at Celonis, said, “It is time to move past the era of AI science projects to Enterprise AI that delivers meaningful business outcomes. By integrating with Amazon S3, we are drastically accelerating the time to value for our customers. We’re giving agents built with Amazon Bedrock the immediate, real-time operational context they need to make the right decisions, take the right actions, and drive real value fast.”
Carol Potts, General Manager, US ISV Sales, AWS, said, “Customers don’t want to spend months migrating data before they can see value from AI. they want to put their data to work where it already lives.
“This collaboration with Celonis makes that possible, bringing deep process intelligence directly to Amazon S3 and simplifying the stack so teams can focus on building smarter AI agents in Amazon Bedrock rather than managing complex pipelines. Together, we’re helping customers move faster from AI experimentation to real operational impact.”
BMW Group is among the enterprises using the technology.
Marco Görgmaier, Vice President Data, Artificial Intelligence & Enterprise Platform, said, “At BMW Group, turning massive volumes of process data into tangible operational impact is essential to continuously improving our manufacturing and enterprise processes.
“The zero-copy connection between Celonis and AWS helps us to significantly reduce unnecessary data movement while maintaining control over our process data. It provides the process context needed for analytics, AI agents and automated workflows to identify improvement potential faster and support more efficient operations across the enterprise.”
