OpenAI Chooses AWS in $38 Billion Deal to Run Core AI Workloads

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OpenAI have announced a multi-year strategic partnership worth $38 billion to run and scale OpenAI’s core artificial intelligence (AI) workloads on AWS infrastructure. The deal, which will expand over the next seven years, gives OpenAI access to AWS compute resources comprising hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs, with the potential to scale up to tens of millions of CPUs.

Under the agreement, OpenAI will begin using AWS compute immediately, with all capacity targeted for deployment before the end of 2026 and additional expansion planned through 2027 and beyond. The partnership comes as demand for AI compute continues to surge globally.

“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.”

Matt Garman, CEO of AWS, said the company’s infrastructure would serve as a foundation for OpenAI’s growing operations. “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,” Garman said. “The breadth and immediate availability of optimised compute demonstrates why AWS is uniquely positioned to support OpenAI's vast AI workloads.”

The new infrastructure, featuring NVIDIA GB200 and GB300 GPUs connected via Amazon EC2 UltraServers, is designed to enable low-latency performance across large-scale clusters. These systems will support both inference for ChatGPT and training for next-generation models, with flexibility to adjust to OpenAI’s evolving requirements.

The collaboration extends the companies’ earlier efforts to bring AI capabilities to enterprise customers. OpenAI’s open-weight foundation models were recently made available on Amazon Bedrock, allowing AWS customers to integrate them into applications. 

Companies such as Bystreet, Comscore, Peloton, Thomson Reuters, Triomics, and Verana Health are already using OpenAI’s models on AWS for agentic workflows, coding, scientific research, and data analysis.

The deal adds to OpenAI’s broader effort to secure massive compute resources, following recent partnerships with NVIDIA, AMD, and Broadcom that together represent more than 26 gigawatts of capacity and potential commitments surpassing $1 trillion.