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AWS, OpenAI Ink Multi-Year Deal for Massive Compute to Power AI Workloads

• By David Ramel
• 11/03/2025

Amazon announced a multi-year strategic partnership with OpenAI to run and scale OpenAI's core AI workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure starting immediately. The company described the deal as a $38 billion commitment with continued growth over the next seven years, noting that OpenAI will access hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs on AWS and be able to scale to tens of millions of CPUs.

According to the Nov. 3 announcement, AWS will provide Amazon EC2 UltraServers and clusters designed for low-latency interconnects across systems. The deployment clusters NVIDIA GB200 and GB300 GPUs on the same network to optimize performance for a range of workloads, including serving inference for ChatGPT and training next-generation models. AWS said it operates large-scale AI infrastructure with clusters topping 500K chips.

• The multi-year, strategic partnership empowers OpenAI with immediate and increasing access to AWS's world-class infrastructure for their advanced AI workloads.
• AWS to provide OpenAI with Amazon EC2 UltraServers, featuring hundreds of thousands of chips, and the ability to scale to tens of millions of CPUs for its advanced generative AI workloads.
• Representing a $38B commitment, OpenAI will rapidly expand compute capacity while benefitting from the price, performance, scale, and security of AWS.

Amazon said OpenAI will begin using AWS compute immediately under the partnership, with all capacity targeted to be deployed before the end of 2026 and potential expansion into 2027 and beyond. The companies positioned the arrangement as combining AWS's cloud scale, security, and reliability with OpenAI's model development, citing demand for compute driven by advancing AI capabilities.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said: "Scaling frontier AI requires massive, reliable compute. Our partnership with AWS strengthens the broad compute ecosystem that will power this next era and bring advanced AI to everyone."

AWS CEO Matt Garman said: "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. The breadth and immediate availability of optimized compute demonstrates why AWS is uniquely positioned to support OpenAI's vast AI workloads."

The announcement also referenced earlier collaboration between the companies around model availability on AWS. Earlier this year, OpenAI open-weight foundation models became available in Amazon Bedrock, which AWS said added options for customers using Bedrock (see "AWS Jumps on OpenAI's gpt-oss Open-Weight AI Model Bandwagon").

Amazon listed adoption across use cases including agentic workflows, coding, scientific analysis, and mathematical problem-solving, citing customers such as Bystreet, Comscore, Peloton, Thomson Reuters, Triomics, and Verana Health.