AWS to invest $50B in AI and supercomputing infrastructure for government customers

Amazon Web Services is granting government expanded access to its tech products offerings while scaling the infrastructure required to support it.

Amazon Web Services announced Monday that it will be aiming to expand its artificial intelligence and supercomputing infrastructure for government customers, unveiling a new investment of up to $50 billion towards scaling capabilities for federal operations.

The investments are intended to add 1.3 gigawatts of electricity generation for its AWS Top Secret, AWS Secret and AWS GovCloud regions. In addition to more power, AWS is preparing to scale new data centers with advanced compute technologies that will support expanded access to AWS software products, namely Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Nova and Anthropic’s Claude, plus hardware like AWS Trainium chips. 

The expanded access and infrastructure are intended to support a diverse group of use cases. 

"Our investment in purpose-built government AI and cloud infrastructure will fundamentally transform ...