Amazon announced one of the largest public-sector cloud infrastructure commitments in history, pledging up to $50 billion to expand artificial intelligence and high-performance computing capacity for U.S. government agencies.
Beginning in 2026, the investment will add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of new AI and supercomputing capability across AWS Top Secret, AWS Secret, and AWS GovCloud regions through next-generation data centers equipped with advanced compute and networking systems.
(1.3 GW of computing power = electricity for ~750,000 U.S. households.)
“AWS is removing technology barriers that have historically held government back,” said AWS CEO Matt Garman.
AWS currently serves 11,000+ U.S. government agencies, making it one of the core technology providers for secure federal workloads.
What the Expansion Delivers
The initiative will significantly boost agencies’ access to AWS’ full AI suite, including:
- Amazon SageMaker – model training, tuning, customization
- Amazon Bedrock – deploying foundation models and agents
- Amazon Nova & Anthropic Claude – advanced foundation model ecosystems
Context: AI Infrastructure Race Accelerates
Tech giants including OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft are investing heavily to meet surging demand for AI compute. Amazon’s commitment positions AWS as a central infrastructure backbone for the U.S. government’s AI modernization push.