Denodo has signed a multi-year strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help companies build and scale agentic AI on a foundation of real-time, governed data. The deal was announced on Tuesday 10 November 2026.

Denodo, based in Palo Alto, California, describes itself as an AI data layer company. Its platform lets organisations connect to data held in different systems without moving it into a single store, and then make that data available to applications, including AI agents, under governance rules.

Trusted data for AI agents

The agreement focuses on giving AI agents trusted access to enterprise data across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. That matters because agents that carry out multi-step tasks on behalf of staff need accurate, up-to-date information, and businesses need to control which data an agent can see and use.

Under the agreement, the two companies will expand their joint go-to-market and technical investment to speed up adoption of the Denodo Platform on AWS worldwide. The aim is to help joint customers develop agentic AI systems that draw on live business data rather than stale copies.

Building on an existing partnership

The deal builds on an existing relationship between the two companies. Denodo is an AWS ISV Accelerate Partner, with a software-as-a-service offering eligible for joint selling with AWS. It also holds AWS competencies in data software and in financial services technology, which AWS awards to partners with proven customer work in those areas.

Denodo said more details of the joint work are available on its AWS pages. Neither company disclosed financial terms for the agreement.

Why it matters

Interest in agentic AI has grown sharply this year, but many companies have found that agents are only as reliable as the data they can reach. Deals like this one reflect a shift in the industry: the contest is no longer only about who builds the most capable AI model, but about who can connect those models safely to the data businesses already hold.

For AWS, the agreement strengthens its pitch to enterprises that want to run AI agents on its cloud while keeping data spread across different systems. For Denodo, it brings its data layer to a larger audience of AWS customers looking to put agentic AI into production. The two companies said the expanded investment covers joint selling as well as technical work, so customers should see the combined offering in AWS sales channels as well as in new product integrations over time.