OpenAI has entered a landmark $38 billion, multi-year partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to power the next wave of artificial intelligence, marking one of the largest cloud infrastructure deals in tech history.
The agreement will see OpenAI rely on AWS’s global network of data centers and Amazon EC2 UltraServers, which include hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs and the ability to scale to tens of millions of CPUs. The infrastructure is designed to meet the growing computational demands of training and running large-scale AI models such as ChatGPT.
AWS’s technology—renowned for its reliability, performance, and scale—will serve as the backbone for OpenAI’s advanced workloads. The partnership enables OpenAI to expand its computing capacity rapidly while maintaining security and cost efficiency. All initial capacity will be deployed by 2026, with further expansions planned into 2027 and beyond.
“Scaling frontier AI requires massive, reliable compute,” said Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. “Our partnership with AWS strengthens the broad compute ecosystem that will power this next era and bring advanced AI to everyone.”
For AWS, the deal reaffirms its place in the AI infrastructure race against rivals Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. “As OpenAI continues to push the boundaries of what’s possible, AWS’s best-in-class infrastructure will serve as a backbone for their AI ambitions,” said Matt Garman, CEO of AWS.
The partnership extends an ongoing collaboration between the two companies. Earlier this year, OpenAI’s open-weight foundation models became available on Amazon Bedrock, AWS’s managed service for accessing and deploying leading AI models. Since then, thousands of organizations—including Peloton, Thomson Reuters, and Comscore—have adopted OpenAI’s models on AWS for use in data analysis, software development, and generative content creation.
Industry analysts say the deal underscores the escalating costs—and growing dependencies—around AI development. With model training and inference requiring enormous compute power, alliances between AI pioneers and cloud providers have become central to the technology’s future.
As OpenAI scales its infrastructure with AWS, both companies are positioning themselves at the heart of a new computing era—one defined not just by algorithms, but by the immense cloud power that makes artificial intelligence possible.
