Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OpenAI have entered a $38 billion, multi-year strategic partnership to expand and accelerate OpenAI’s artificial intelligence workloads using AWS’s global cloud infrastructure. The agreement, announced on November 3, 2025, will provide OpenAI with access to massive compute resources, including hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs and the ability to scale to tens of millions of CPUs over the next seven years.
Under the new partnership, OpenAI will use AWS infrastructure to run and scale operations for products such as ChatGPT and future AI models. AWS said its architecture—featuring NVIDIA GB200 and GB300 GPUs connected via Amazon EC2 UltraServers—is designed to deliver low-latency performance and energy efficiency across interconnected clusters. The systems will support both model training and real-time inference, with all initial capacity expected to be deployed by the end of 2026 and room for expansion into 2027 and beyond.
“Scaling frontier AI requires massive, reliable compute,” said Sam Altman, OpenAI’s co-founder and chief executive. “Our partnership with AWS strengthens the broad compute ecosystem that will power this next era and bring advanced AI to everyone.” AWS Chief Executive Matt Garman added that the collaboration will serve as the technological backbone of OpenAI’s next growth phase, noting that the company’s cloud infrastructure is built to handle large-scale AI workloads securely and efficiently.
The rapid growth of generative AI has led to surging demand for computing power as developers race to create more capable and responsive models. AWS highlighted its experience operating AI clusters exceeding 500,000 chips, saying that its infrastructure offers the performance and reliability needed for frontier model development. The partnership is expected to help OpenAI sustain its global user base while preparing for the next generation of large-scale AI systems.
The deal also extends earlier cooperation between the two firms. Earlier this year, OpenAI’s foundation models became available through Amazon Bedrock, AWS’s managed service for AI applications. Companies such as Comscore, Peloton, Thomson Reuters, and Verana Health have since adopted OpenAI’s models for use cases ranging from data analysis to code generation.
By joining forces, AWS and OpenAI aim to strengthen the foundations of the global AI ecosystem. The companies said the partnership will combine AWS’s leadership in scalable cloud computing with OpenAI’s research in generative and agentic AI, creating new opportunities for innovation and enterprise adoption in the years ahead.
Source: OpenAI