A retailer some buy-here, pay-here operators sometimes use to acquire parts for the service drive and reconditioning efforts is now in the cloud.

AutoZone and Google Cloud recently announced a strategic expansion of their partnership. AutoZone recently completed a full-stack migration to Google Cloud, exiting legacy data centers in less than three years.

According to a news release, AutoZone transitioned most of its applications to Google Cloud, looking to enhance performance, observability, and long-term flexibility.

Michelle Borninkhof is senior vice president and chief information officer at AutoZone

“Completing our cloud migration is a significant milestone, and our partnership with Google has been instrumental to this success. But it’s not the finish line,” Borninkhof said in the news release.

“We are now looking to leverage Google AI Cloud to help us enhance system monitoring, accelerate development, and enable faster decision making. In addition, we are in the early stages of using Gemini Enterprise to automate high volume tasks and improve productivity,” Borninkhof continued.

Jose Gomes, vice president of retail and consumer packaged goods with Google Cloud, added, “AutoZone has moved beyond modernizing infrastructure. By transitioning to an agentic architecture, AutoZone is able to make the most of its data and empower AutoZoners to improve the experience for customers and employees alike.”