OpenAI Partners with AWS in $38 Billion AI Infrastructure Deal

SEATTLE, Wash. — Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OpenAI announced a multi-year, strategic partnership on November 3, 2025. The agreement, valued at $38 billion, gives OpenAI immediate access to AWS’s powerful infrastructure to scale its artificial intelligence (AI) workloads.

Under this partnership, OpenAI will utilize AWS’s advanced computing capabilities, which include hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs and the potential to expand to tens of millions of CPUs. The collaboration aims to meet the growing demand for AI processing power by frontier model providers.

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

AWS, known for its expertise in running large-scale AI infrastructures securely and efficiently, will deliver a sophisticated setup optimized for maximum AI processing. The design includes Amazon EC2 UltraServers that cluster NVIDIA GPUs, enabling low-latency performance across interconnected systems for various tasks.

AWS CEO Matt Garman emphasized the importance of the deal, stating, “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.” He highlighted that the deployment of the infrastructure is expected to be completed before the end of 2026.

This partnership further extends the existing relationship between AWS and OpenAI. Earlier this year, OpenAI’s models were integrated into Amazon Bedrock, AWS’s platform for generative AI. OpenAI has quickly become a popular model provider on Bedrock, with clients including Comscore, Peloton, and Thomson Reuters utilizing its technologies for various applications.

Amid the excitement of the partnership, AWS has faced scrutiny due to recent layoffs within the company. Despite concerns from some employees about the investments in AI amid workforce reductions, others view the partnership as critical for future advancements in AI technology.

As this collaboration unfolds, the scale and impact of AWS’s infrastructure on OpenAI’s capabilities remain closely watched by the industry.