An Amazon Web Services office in Herndon, Va. (Al Drago\/Bloomberg)<\/p>\n
\n April 28, 2026 2:30 PM, EDT<\/p>\n
For the first three years of the artificial intelligence boom, Amazon.com Inc. watched as cloud customers seeking the latest and greatest from OpenAI took their business to Microsoft Corp.<\/p>\n
But the day after Amazon\u2019s biggest cloud rival agreed to\u00a0drop\u00a0its exclusive rights to resell OpenAI products, Amazon says it will finally be able to make the ChatGPT maker\u2019s AI models available to its own customers.\u00a0\n \t \t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s something that our customers have asked for, for a really long time,\u201d Matt Garman, CEO of the Amazon Web Services cloud unit, told Bloomberg Television.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Some of OpenAI\u2019s latest models will be available to preview on AWS starting April 28, with the most powerful GPT models arriving \u201cin the next couple of weeks,\u201d Garman said.\u00a0\n \t\t<\/p>\n
Microsoft got a jump on the large language model era thanks to a massive early investment in OpenAI. That gave Microsoft\u2019s Azure cloud unit exclusive rights to sell OpenAI\u2019s most powerful models.<\/p>\n
After the late 2022 launch of ChatGPT, Amazon scrambled to assemble a portfolio of the best of the rest on its Bedrock AI model marketplace, including products from OpenAI archrival Anthropic PBC and Meta Platforms. Still, some longtime AWS customers, including Superhuman, formerly Grammarly,\u00a0turned to\u00a0Microsoft for AI services.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Amazon invested $50 billion in OpenAI\u00a0earlier this year<\/a>, by far its biggest investment in any business, and OpenAI said it would spend an additional $100 billion on AWS computing power and chips.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe absolutely are expecting a lot of growth there,\u201d Garman said.<\/p>\n The two companies have jointly developed a product based on OpenAI\u2019s models to help autonomous AI agents understand context and remember prior interactions with users. That tool, called Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents, was introduced April 28 at an event in San Francisco where AWS also announced a\u00a0bigger push into business applications.<\/p>\n Business customers of OpenAI \u201cwant those models in a trusted environment that they know, and in a trusted infrastructure,\u201d Denise Dresser, OpenAI\u2019s chief revenue officer, said at the event.<\/p>\n Amazon\u2019s tighter relationship with OpenAI coincides with growing worries that the richly valued startup won\u2019t expand its sales fast enough to meet commitments it\u2019s making to Amazon and other infrastructure providers, including Microsoft and Oracle Corp.\u00a0<\/p>\n On April 27, The Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI had fallen short of several internal targets. OpenAI on April 28\u00a0pushed back, saying it was \u201cfiring on all cylinders.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n AWS\u2019 Garman said there was still more demand for AI services than supply of computing power to meet it.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThe OpenAI team, I think, would gladly take more capacity from us this year and next year and the year after that as we add it,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd so we\u2019re still working really hard to continue to add more capacity, whether it\u2019s power, whether it\u2019s chips, whether it\u2019s memory, all around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n Amazon ranks No. 1<\/a>\u00a0on the Transport Topics Top 100 list of the\u00a0largest logistics companies in North America<\/a>, No. 15 on the TT Top 100 list of the\u00a0largest private carriers<\/a>\u00a0and No. 1 on the TT Top 50 list of the\u00a0largest global freight companies<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Amazon Web Services office in Herndon, Va. (Al Drago\/Bloomberg) April 28, 2026 2:30 PM, EDT For the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[321,157],"class_list":{"0":"post-20501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-openai","8":"tag-amazon","9":"tag-openai"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}