For the first time, OpenAI models are available on AWS

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

While OpenAi announced two open-weight reasoning models with possibilities on the same footing with his O-series, Amazon announced That the new models would be available on AWS on Tuesday. This is the first time that OpenAI models are offered by AWS, the company confirmed to WAN. They will be available as a model choice at Amazon AI -Services rock and Sagemaker AI.

While everyone can download the models via Hugging Face, Amazon offers these models with the full knowledge and approval of OpenAi, such as Dmitry Pimenov, the product leader of the model maker, indicated in the announcement. A spokesperson described the offer as comparable to how Amazon offered open model Deepseek-R1 earlier this year.

This is a juicy competitive step for both companies. For AWS it finally places the cloud giant in the same sense as the largest model maker, OpenAi.

Until now, AWS is best known as a great host and financial support from Anthropic’s Claude, one of the biggest competitors in OpenAi. AWS offers Claude, together with other models of makers such as Cohere, Deepseek, Meta and Mistral, as well as his own soil in his AI services. In particular, Bedrock AWS customers enables generative AI apps to build and host models of their choice. Sagemaker, on the other hand, enables AWS customers to train or even build their own AI models, largely for analysis use.

While the ultimate rival of AWS, Microsoft, has not had a lock on OpenAI models since January, Azure is still the most important cloud partner of OpenAi so far. OpenAi has even announced that Microsoft also offers versions of these two new models, optimized for Windows devices.

Seeing how Microsoft wins an increasing amount of cloud companies with OpenAI, has been a public pain in Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s Neck. Last week during Amazon’s quarter callJassy was beaten with questions from Wall Street analysts about how the company lost ground in AI to competitors, in particular Microsoft.

For example, JPMorgan analyst asked Jassy to explain “considerably faster cloud growth between the number two and number three players in the room”, referring to Microsoft and Google. Later Morgan Stanley analyst told Jassy that Wall Street thinks that “AWS is lagging behind in Genai with concern about stock loss, colleagues, etc.”

Jassy responded with a minute -long Diatribe who included this Barb at Redmond: “I think the second player is about 65% of the size of the AWS.”

In the meantime, another AWS competent, Oracle, reported that it signed a deal of $ 30 billion a year with OpenAI to offer data center services. This means that OpenAi is planning to pay more Oracle every year than all its other cloud services combined. Until now, AWS had been omitted from any open-related glory.

Regarding how such a step with AWS benefits OpenAI: the relationship of the AI provider with Microsoft is notoriously tense, because the two are reportedly negotiated again about their long-term partnership agreement. What is a better way for OpenAI to strengthen its position than to suck up the biggest cloud provider, even if they are in the first instance on a small scale?

Moreover, this partnership of AWS Enterprise customers enables easy experimentation with the use of OpenAI models with their hosted AI apps.

In the meantime Altman Mark Zuckerberg from Meta can also undermine this movement. While OpenAI releases these two well -performing models under an Apache 2.0 open source license, Meta recently admitted that it will probably not continue to open all upcoming “super intelligence” models.