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Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OpenAI announced a significant expansion of their partnership on Tuesday afternoon. The deal allows AWS customers to access OpenAI’s artificial intelligence systems directly through Amazon’s cloud-computing platforms. Unveiled at the “What’s Next for AWS” event, the collaboration provides OpenAI with access to Amazon’s massive user base and dominant infrastructure as the AI firm accelerates its push into the enterprise market.
The move comes as many companies are increasingly looking to agents — AI capable of taking on and executing relatively complex tasks — as a way to boost employee productivity and automate rote chores.
“Enterprises want to build with the most capable AI models and agents available,” AWS said in a statement announcing the partnership. “They also need the security posture, operational maturity, and data governance that production workloads demand. Starting today, we are bringing those together.”
On Monday, OpenAI announced that it reached a deal with its longtime exclusive cloud-computing partner, Microsoft, to be able to sell its AI systems with different computing providers. Microsoft is a major investor in OpenAI and receives 20% of the AI company's revenue as part of their relationship.
“Today, we are announcing an amended agreement to simplify our partnership and the way we work together, grounded in flexibility, certainty, and a focus on delivering the benefits of AI broadly,” OpenAI said in its Monday announcement.
OpenAI will continue to pay the revenue share to Microsoft through 2030.
Monday's agreement opened the door to Tuesday’s announcement with AWS, which will now incorporate OpenAI’s leading systems — like its new GPT-5.5 and coding-oriented Codex models — into its Amazon Bedrock cloud computing service.
