For the first time Openai models are available on AWS

Sam Altman’s blowtorch to his competitors is so hot, it even includes a new partnership with Amazon Web Services.

When Openai announced two open reasoning models with capacities on par with its O-Series, Amazon announced that the new models would be available on AWS Tuesday. This is the first time that Openai models will be offered by AWS, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. They will be available as a model choice with Amazon AI Services Bedrock and Sagemaker AI.

While anyone can download the models via Hugging Face, Amazon offers these models with Openai’s full knowledge and approval, such as Dmitry Pimenov, Model Maker’s Product Lead, indicated in the message. A spokesperson described the offer that is similar to how Amazon offered open model Deepseek-R1 earlier this year.

This is a juicy competitive feature for both companies. For AWS, it finally puts the Sky Giant in the same sentence as the largest model manufacturer, Openai.

Until now, AWS has best been known as a major host and an economic backman of Anthropics Claude, one of Opena’s biggest competitors. AWS offers Claude along with other models from manufacturers such as Cohere, Deepseek, Meta and Mistral as well as its own home waxed in its AI services. Specifically, Bedrock AWS customers allow to build and host generative AI apps using models of your choice. Sagemaker, on the other hand, allows AWS customers to train or even build their own AI models largely for analytics use.

While AWSS ultimate rival, Microsoft, has not had a lock on Openai models since January, Azure is still Openai’s most significant skypartner to date. Openai even announced that Microsoft offers versions of these two new models also optimized for Windows devices.

Seeing Microsoft winning an increasing amount of cloud business with Openai has been a public pain in Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s Neck. Just last week during Amazon’s quarterly revenue call, Jassy was knocked with questions from Wall Street analysts about how the company lost the land in AI to competitors, especially Microsoft.

For example, JPMorgan asked analyst Doug Anmuth Jassy to explain “Significantly faster Sky Guard among number two and number three players in the room”, referring to Microsoft and Google. Later, Morgan Stanley analyst Brian Nowak Jassy told Wall Street thinks “AWS falls behind Genai with concern about share losses, comrades, etc.”

Jassy responded with a minute long diatrip that included this barb on Redmond: “I think the other player is about 65% of the AWS size.”

Meanwhile, another AWS competitor, Oracle, reported that it signed an agreement of $ 30 billion a year with Openai to offer data center services. This means that Openai plans to pay Oracle more every year than all of his other cloud services customers combined. Until now, AWS had been omitted by any open -related glory.

As for how such a movement with AWS is in favor of Openai: AI provider’s relationship with Microsoft is notorious strained as the two reportedly renegotiate their long-term partnership agreement. Which better way for Openai to strengthen its position than to enjoy the largest cloud provider, even if it originally in a small scale?

In addition, this partnership provides the AWS Enterprise customers’ customers to easily experiment with using Openai models with their hosted AI apps.

Meanwhile, Altman is also causing to undermine Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg with this step. As Openai releases these two high -performance models under an Apache 2.0 Open Source license, Meta recently admitted that it probably won’t continue to open all its upcoming “superintelligence” models.