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EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday announced for the first time its plans to build and deploy purpose-built artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing for the U.S. government.
AWS’s announcement includes a commitment to invest up to $50 billion to expand the AI and supercomputing capabilities available to its federal customers.
The investment is expected to begin in 2026 and will add approximately 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 computing and networking technologies.
“Our investments in government-purposed AI and cloud infrastructure will fundamentally change how federal agencies leverage supercomputing,” said AWS CEO Matt Garman. “We are giving government agencies expanded access to advanced AI capabilities that can accelerate critical missions from cybersecurity to drug discovery.”
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AWS announced that it will invest up to $50 billion to strengthen AI and supercomputing capabilities for federal agencies. (Julian Stratenschulte/Picture Alliance)
Garman added, “This investment will remove technology barriers that have been holding back governments and further position the United States to lead in the AI era.”
Federal agencies will now have access to AWS’ comprehensive AI services, including Amazon SageMaker AI for model training and customization, Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic Claude, and Amazon Nova for model and agent deployment, as well as AWS Trainium AI chips and Nvidia AI infrastructure.
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AWS CEO Matt Garman said the initiative will help the U.S. government lead the way in AI supercomputing. (Getty Images)
The AWS initiative aims to accelerate discovery and decision-making across government missions by enabling AI-powered simulations and data modeling to help agencies complete tasks in hours that previously took weeks or months.
For example, AWS said the investment will allow its research team to process decades of global security data across hundreds of variables in real time, turning pattern analysis into actionable insights quickly.
He also said that AI and supercomputing will enable defense and intelligence workflows that previously required weeks of manual analysis to automatically detect threats and generate response plans by processing satellite imagery, sensor data, and historical patterns at an unprecedented scale.
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The White House’s AI Action Plan aims to strengthen the federal government’s advanced computing capabilities. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
The company said the investment will support the White House’s AI Action Plan, as well as other advanced computing initiatives deployed on secure U.S.-based AI and cloud infrastructure.
Since AWS launched government cloud solutions more than a decade ago, we provide support to more than 11,000 government agencies.
In 2011, the company used AWS GovCloud (US West) to build its first infrastructure specifically for government security and compliance requirements.
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The company also created the first air-gapped commercial cloud certified to support classified workloads in 2014 and launched AWS Secret Regions in 2017, becoming the first cloud provider certified across all U.S. government data classifications (non-classified, classified, and top secret).
