Amazon Web Services is making a significant new investment in infrastructure designed to strengthen the AI capabilities of U.S. government organizations.
AWS announced Monday that it will invest $50 billion to build a purpose-built AI “high-performance computing infrastructure” for the U.S. government. This expansion aims to expand federal government agencies’ access to AWS AI services.
The project will add 1.3 gigawatts of compute and expand government access to AWS products, including Amazon SageMaker AI, model customization, Amazon Bedrock, model deployment, and Anthropic’s Claude chatbot, among others, according to the company.
AWS plans to launch these data center projects in 2026.
“Our investment in purpose-built government cloud and AI infrastructure will fundamentally transform how federal agencies leverage supercomputing,” Matt Garman, CEO of AWS, said in the company’s press release. “We’re giving agencies expanded access to advanced AI capabilities that will enable them to accelerate their critical missions, from cybersecurity to drug discovery. This investment removes the technological barriers that have held back government and further positions America to lead in the AI era.”
AWS is no stranger to working with the US government.
The entity began building cloud infrastructure for the U.S. government in 2011. Three years later, it launched AWS Top Secret-East, the first isolated commercial cloud to operate with classified workloads. AWS introduced AWS Secret Region in 2017, which has accredited access to all security classification levels.
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Tech giants have increasingly pitched their AI services to the U.S. government over the past year.
OpenAI launched a version of ChatGPT in January designed exclusively for US federal government agencies. OpenAI announced a deal in August allowing government agencies to access the enterprise level of ChatGPT for just $1 per year.
The same month, Anthropic announced that it was also giving the U.S. government access to enterprise tiers of its Claude chatbot for $1. Google announced “Google for Government” for even less, charging 47 cents for the first year, shortly after.
