Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced a $38 billion, multi-year partnership with OpenAI to provide cloud infrastructure for scaling advanced artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. This includes the use of NVIDIA GPUs and millions of CPUs. The announcement was made in a press release.
According to Amazon’s official press release, this partnership is one of the largest infrastructure agreements in AI history. It allows OpenAI to immediately run its core AI workloads on AWS. The collaboration leverages AWS’s experience operating clusters exceeding 500,000 chips to support OpenAI’s next-generation model training and inference. Amazon said that the partnership reflects the growing global demand for secure, large-scale compute power as AI systems become increasingly complex and compute-intensive.
Per the announcement, AWS will provide OpenAI access to Amazon EC2 UltraServers powered by hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GB200 and GB300 GPUs, as well as scaling capabilities up to tens of millions of CPUs. The infrastructure is engineered for low-latency, high-performance AI processing and will support both ChatGPT operations and future model training. OpenAI will begin using AWS compute immediately, with capacity expected to be fully deployed by the end of 2026 and expansion planned into 2027 and beyond.
According to Reuters, the $38 billion deal strengthens AWS’s position in the competitive AI infrastructure market, challenging major cloud rivals Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. The report notes that AWS’s advanced EC2 UltraServers, optimized for large-scale generative AI, offer the reliability and flexibility OpenAI requires to expand global access to ChatGPT and other AI systems. Reuters highlighted that AWS’s prior integration of OpenAI’s open-weight foundation models on Amazon Bedrock laid the groundwork for this broader strategic alignment.
Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, Amazon is a global technology company with operations spanning e-commerce, digital media, logistics, and cloud computing through its subsidiary AWS. AWS provides scalable computing power and AI solutions to millions of customers worldwide, supporting workloads across over 240 services. The company’s infrastructure powers global innovation for enterprises, startups, and governments by combining performance, security, and sustainability.
