AXA's fraught journey to the cloud starts to pay off

Thomas Schelenz, AXA’s group head of cloud services, spoke to Stephen Pritchard for The Stack.

Stephen Pritchard

May 07, 2026 - 6 min read

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For AXA, a global insurance company, moving IT to the cloud has been the goal for over a decade. But so far, the journey has not been easy.

A big VM migration was fraught. But a lengthy shift to heavily containerised applications running in the public cloud is bearing fruit.

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