AWS and OpenAI Announce $38 Billion Infrastructure Partnership
Seven-year deal provides OpenAI access to hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs, marking the end of Microsoft exclusivity.
Amazon Web Services and OpenAI have announced a transformative multi-year strategic partnership worth $38 billion over seven years. The deal provides OpenAI access to AWS's world-class infrastructure, marking the definitive end of OpenAI's era of cloud exclusivity with Microsoft.
Massive Scale Infrastructure
Under this agreement, OpenAI gains access to AWS compute comprising hundreds of thousands of state-of-the-art NVIDIA GPUs, with the ability to expand to tens of millions of CPUs for rapidly scaling agentic workloads. The deployment clusters both GB200 and GB300 GPUs via Amazon EC2 UltraServers on the same network, enabling low-latency performance across interconnected systems.
Deployment Timeline
OpenAI will immediately begin utilizing AWS compute as part of this partnership, with all capacity targeted for deployment before the end of 2026 and the ability to expand further into 2027 and beyond. This represents OpenAI's first contract with AWS, the leader in cloud infrastructure.
Breaking Microsoft Exclusivity
Microsoft had previously been OpenAI's exclusive cloud partner. Following the Stargate announcement in January 2025, the two companies confirmed their partnership was no longer exclusive. Since then, OpenAI has signed agreements with Google Cloud, CoreWeave, and Oracle, diversifying its infrastructure dependencies.
Market Impact
The announcement sent Amazon's stock to a record high, adding nearly $140 billion in market value in a single day. The rally also boosted Jeff Bezos's personal net worth by nearly $10 billion, demonstrating the market's enthusiasm for this strategic alignment between two tech giants.
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