Amazon to expand AI & supercomputing infrastructure for US government agencies
Federal agencies will gain broader access to AWS’s full suite of AI capabilities
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Amazon announced an investment of up to US$50 billion to expand artificial intelligence (AI) and supercomputing capabilities for Amazon Web Services (AWS) US government customers.
The investment will add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of AI and supercomputing capacity across AWS Top Secret, AWS Secret, and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions by building data centers with advanced compute and networking technologies, according to the announcement.
Federal agencies will gain broader access to AWS’s full suite of AI capabilities including Amazon SageMaker for model training and customization, Amazon Bedrock for deploying models and agents, Amazon Nova, Anthropic Claude, leading open-weight foundation models, AWS Trainium chips, and NVIDIA AI infrastructure. This will enable them to build tailored AI solutions, optimize large-scale datasets, and boost workforce productivity, Amazon said.
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Amazon’s investment will allow government agencies to accelerate discovery and decision-making across missions. By combining modeling and simulation data with AI, processes that once took weeks or months can now be completed in hours through autonomous analysis and real-time feedback, Amazon said.
Research teams can analyze decades of global security data across hundreds of variables instantly, turning complex patterns into actionable insights while reducing data volume. Advanced computing can unify previously fragmented supply chain, infrastructure, and environmental data, and defense and intelligence workflows can automatically detect threats and generate response plans by processing satellite imagery, sensor inputs, and historical trends at massive scale.
Together, AI and simulation can equip the nation to address its most complex challenges with unprecedented speed and precision.
“Our investment in purpose-built government AI and cloud infrastructure will fundamentally transform how federal agencies leverage supercomputing,” said AWS CEO Matt Garman. “We’re giving agencies expanded access to advanced AI capabilities that will enable them to accelerate critical missions from cybersecurity to drug discovery. This investment removes the technology barriers that have held government back and further positions America to lead in the AI era.”
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Amazon supports the Administration’s AI Action Plan
Amazon’s investment “directly supports” the priorities outlined in the Administration’s AI Action Plan, as well as other advanced computing initiatives deployed on secure, US-based AI and cloud infrastructure, the firm stated.
It also underscores the strategic importance of AI and supercomputing in maintaining technological superiority, safeguarding critical infrastructure, and driving industrial innovation.
“Federal customers and the supporting industrial base share a vision of AI and HPC convergence. This includes orchestrating expert AI models, agents, and natural language interfaces to enable researchers and engineers to explore complex problems through conversational interaction,” read a press release.
This represents a fundamental shift from traditional HPC workflows to AI-accelerated discovery, where scientists can specify challenges and receive AI-driven recommendations backed by high-fidelity simulations and analysis.
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