OpenAI brings its models to Amazon’s cloud after ending exclusivity with Microsoft

OpenAI brings its models to Amazon’s cloud after ending exclusivity with Microsoft

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 revamped its relationship with Microsoft so that it can run all of its products on any cloud, the artificial intelligence company said its models will be available via Amazon Web Services.

AWS customers can experiment with OpenAI’s models as well as its Codex agent for writing code, all through Amazon Bedrock, the companies announced on Tuesday. The services will become generally available in the next few weeks.

“This is what our customers have been asking us for for a really long time,” AWS CEO Matt Garman said at a launch event in San Francisco.

Until now, developers could draw on so-called open-weight models from OpenAI that came to AWS in August.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sent a recorded message about the announcement, as he’s currently in court across the Bay Bridge in Oakland for his case against Elon Musk.

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