Amazon is already offering new OpenAI products on AWS

Almost as soon as OpenAI announced that its major investor and cloud partner Microsoft no longer has exclusive rights to its products, Amazon started gloating.

After the revised OpenAI/Microsoft agreement was announced on Monday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy noted in a tweet that it was a “very interesting announcement.” That agreement solved OpenAI’s difficulty in offering AWS its products, a problem that came to light after it signed a deal worth up to $50 billion with Amazon.

Amazon announced Tuesday that AWS’s Bedrock service now has the latest models of OpenAI, the code-writing service Codex and a new product for creating OpenAI-powered AI agents. Bedrock is Amazon’s AI app building and model selection service.

Amazon calls the new agent service Bedrock Managed Agents. It is specifically designed to use OpenAI’s reasoning models and offers features such as agent control and security.

Amazon promises in its blog post that “this is the start of a deeper collaboration between AWS and OpenAI.” And it will certainly be interesting to watch.

The relationship between Microsoft and OpenAI has reportedly been deteriorating for some time, with each finding solace in the arms of their partner’s biggest rival. OpenAI has turned to AWS and Oracle. Microsoft to Anthropic; the Redmond-based software giant is also working on a new agent offering powered by Claude.