AWS CEO: New OpenAI Models On AWS Are A ‘Powerhouse Combination’

‘This brings together OpenAI’s leading technology with AWS’ scale, security and deployment capabilities,’ says AWS CEO Matt Garman regarding OpenAI’s new open weight models available on AWS.

OpenAI’s new advanced open weight models are now available for AWS customers in Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker AI as the $124 billion cloud giant continues to drive its bullish agentic AI strategy.

“A powerhouse combination: OpenAI is coming to AWS,” said AWS CEO Matt Garman Tuesday on LinkedIn. “This brings together OpenAI’s leading technology with AWS’ scale, security and deployment capabilities.”

Garman said OpenAI’s new models on Bedrock “are 3X more price-performant than the comparable [Google] Gemini model” and “5X more price-performant than DeepSeek R1.”

“Model choice is tremendously important in the AI era, and we’re giving customers the freedom to select the right tools for their unique business challenges,” AWS’ CEO said. “Excited to make these OpenAI models available to AWS customers.”

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OpenAI’s two new open weight foundation models—the gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b—aim to put more powerful AI innovation into the hands of AWS customers to drive the creation of new generative AI applications and AI agents.

OpenAI On AWS Details For Bedrock, SageMaker

The Seattle-based cloud market-share leader is now offering OpenAI models to its millions of customers on AWS for the first time on Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker AI.

For example, when using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, customers now can deploy and operate effective agents using OpenAI models running natively on Bedrock for production applications. Customers can also seamlessly integrate gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b with Amazon Bedrock’s enterprise-grade security and powerful tools like Guardrails.

Regarding Amazon SageMaker AI, customers can now leverage OpenAI’s open weight models alongside tools for pretraining, evaluation, fine-tuning and model deployment.

“Open weight models are an important area of innovation in the future development of generative AI technology, which is why we have invested in making AWS the best place to run them—including those launching today from OpenAI,” said AWS’ Atul Deo, director of product, in a blog post Tuesday.

The addition of OpenAI as AWS’ newest open weight model provider “marks a natural progression in our commitment to bringing cutting-edge AI to organizations worldwide, and the unmatched size of our customer base marks a transformative shift in access to OpenAI’s advanced technology,” Deo said.

OpenAI joins other open weight model providers such as DeepSeek, Meta, Mistral AI and others that have made their technologies available via Bedrock and SageMaker AI.