Amazon Web Services moved quickly to expand its OpenAI offerings in April 2026, announcing a slate of new products on its Bedrock platform just one day after OpenAI and Microsoft revised their partnership agreement to end Microsoft’s exclusive rights to OpenAI’s products.
AWS announced that its Bedrock service — Amazon’s AI app-building and model-selection platform — now includes OpenAI’s latest models, its code-writing service Codex, and a new product called Bedrock Managed Agents. The agent service is specifically designed to use OpenAI’s reasoning models and offers features including agent steering and security.
The timing was swift. After the revised OpenAI-Microsoft agreement was announced on Monday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy publicly noted on social media that it was a “very interesting announcement.” AWS made its own announcement the following day.
The Microsoft exclusivity arrangement had previously blocked AWS from offering OpenAI products — an issue that became more pressing after Amazon signed an up-to-$50-billion deal with OpenAI. The revised agreement resolved that obstacle.
In a blog post, Amazon stated that “this is the beginning of a deeper collaboration between AWS and OpenAI,” suggesting the current announcements may be followed by further joint efforts.
The development reflects a broader shift in the relationships between major AI and cloud companies. The Microsoft-OpenAI partnership has reportedly been deteriorating, with OpenAI turning to AWS and Oracle as partners, while Microsoft has moved closer to Anthropic. Microsoft is also reported to be developing a new agent product powered by Claude, Anthropic’s AI model.
Source: TechCrunch