Almost as soon as OpenAI announced that its major investor and cloud partner, Microsoft, no longer has exclusive rights to any of its products, Amazon began to gloat.
After the revised deal between OpenAI and Microsoft was announced on Monday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy noted in a tweet that it was a “very interesting announcement.” That deal solved OpenAI’s problem with allowing AWS to offer its products, a problem that crystallized after it signed a agreement of up to 50 billion dollars with Amazon.
Amazon announced Tuesday that AWS’s Bedrock service now has the latest OpenAI models, its Codex code writing service, and a new product for creating AI agents powered by OpenAI. Bedrock is Amazon’s artificial intelligence application creation and modeling service.
Amazon calls the new agent service Bedrock Managed Agents. It is designed specifically to use OpenAI reasoning models and offers features such as agent steering and security.
Amazon promises in its blog post that “this is the beginning of a deeper collaboration between AWS and OpenAI.” And it will certainly be interesting to see.
The Microsoft/OpenAI relationship has It has supposedly been deteriorating for some timeand each of them finds comfort in the arms of their partner’s greatest rival. OpenAI has turned to AWS and Oracle. Microsoft to Anthropo; the Redmond-based software giant also working on a new agent offer pushed by Claude.
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