Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman speaks at the HumanX conference in San Francisco on April 7, 2026.
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A day after OpenAI renegotiated its ties Microsoft So that it can run all its products on any cloud, the artificial intelligence company said its models will be available through Amazon Web Services.
Through Amazon Bedrock, AWS customers can experiment with OpenAI’s models as well as its Codex agent for writing code. announced On Tuesday. The services will become generally available over the next few weeks.
“Our customers have been asking us for this for a long time,” AWS CEO Matt Garman said at a launch event in San Francisco.
Until now, developers could take advantage of OpenAI’s so-called open-weight model that came to AWS in August.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sent a recorded message about the announcement, as he is currently in the Bay Bridge courthouse in Oakland for his case against Elon Musk.
“I wish I could have been there with you in person today, my schedule was taken away from me today,” Altman said in the video. “However, I wanted to send a quick message, because we’re really excited about our partnership with AWS and what it means for our customers, and I wanted to say thank you to Matt and the entire AWS team.”
The companies said a new service called Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents, powered by OpenAI, will enable the creation of sophisticated customized agents that will include memory of past interactions.
Microsoft has been an important supplier of computing power to OpenAI even before the 2022 launch of ChatGPT. Dennis Dresser, OpenAI’s revenue chief, told employees in a memo earlier this month that the long-standing relationship with Microsoft has been important, but “it has also limited our ability to meet enterprises where they are — which is bedrock for many.”
On Monday, OpenAI and Microsoft announced a significant change to their arrangement that would allow the AI ​​company to limit revenue share payments and provide the service to customers through any cloud provider. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy called the announcement “very interesting” in a post on X, and said more details would be shared on Tuesday.
OpenAI and Amazon are getting closer in other ways.
In November, OpenAI announced a $38 billion commitment with Amazon Web Services, days after saying that Microsoft Azure would lone cloud To service products built with third party application programming interfaces or APIs.
Three months later, OpenAI expanded its relationship with Amazon, saying it would invest $50 billion in Altman’s company. OpenAI said it will use two gigawatts worth of AWS’s custom Trenium chip for training AI models.
The partnership was announced after The Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI failed to meet internal targets on users and revenue. Shares of AI hardware companies including chip makers Nvidia and Broadcom fell, which also highlighted internal discrepancies over spending plans.
“This is ridiculous,” Sam Altman and OpenAI CFO Sarah Fryer said in a statement about the story. “We completely agree on buying as many computers as possible and working hard on it together every day.”
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