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OpenAI Ends Cloud Exclusivity with Microsoft, Expands to Amazon Web Services
Importance: 90/10018 Sources
Why It Matters
This development significantly alters the landscape of cloud AI services, empowering a broader range of businesses to access cutting-edge OpenAI models through multiple major cloud providers, intensifying competition and fostering innovation across the industry.
Key Intelligence
- ■Microsoft and OpenAI have revised their multi-year partnership, ending the exclusive cloud sales agreement for OpenAI's AI models.
- ■This strategic shift now allows OpenAI to offer its powerful AI models, including GPT, Codex, and Managed Agents, on other cloud platforms.
- ■Amazon Web Services (AWS) has immediately begun offering OpenAI's latest models and agents through its Amazon Bedrock service.
- ■The move increases competition in the cloud AI market, giving enterprises more flexibility and choice in deploying advanced AI technologies.
- ■Microsoft retains its deep partnership with OpenAI, focusing on integrating OpenAI's models into its own products and offering them through Azure.
Source Coverage
Google News - AI & VentureBeat
4/27/2026Microsoft and OpenAI gut their exclusive deal, freeing OpenAI to sell on AWS and Google Cloud - VentureBeat
Google News - AI & Bloomberg
4/27/2026OpenAI Breaks Free of Microsoft AI Exclusivity Pact - Bloomberg.com
Google News - AI & Models
4/28/2026OpenAI ended its exclusive sales contract for artificial intelligence (AI) models with Microsoft, pa.. - 매일경제
Google News - AI & Models
4/28/2026Microsoft, OpenAI revise partnership to end exclusive AI model rights - Yahoo Finance
Google News - AI & Models
4/28/2026OpenAI breaks free of Microsoft's cloud - Axios
OpenAI Blog
4/28/2026OpenAI models, Codex, and Managed Agents come to AWS
Google News - AI & TechCrunch
4/28/2026Amazon is already offering new OpenAI products on AWS - TechCrunch
Google News - AI & Models
4/28/2026AWS and OpenAI announce expanded partnership to bring frontier intelligence to the infrastructure you already trust - Amazon News
Google News - AI & Models
4/28/2026OpenAI models, Codex, and Managed Agents come to AWS - OpenAI
Google News - AI & Models
4/28/2026OpenAI brings its models to Amazon's cloud after ending exclusivity with Microsoft - CNBC
Google News - AI & Models
4/28/2026OpenAI models and Codex agent launching on Amazon Bedrock - qz.com
Google News - AI & Models
4/28/2026OpenAI to make its models available via Amazon's servers - Axios
Google News - AI & Models
4/28/2026Amazon Gains Access to OpenAI Models, Challenging Microsoft’s Cloud Lead - PYMNTS.com
Google News - AI & Bloomberg
4/28/2026Amazon to Sell OpenAI Tech After Microsoft Cedes Exclusivity - Bloomberg.com
Google News - AI & Models
4/28/2026OpenAI's latest AI models, Codex now available on Amazon Bedrock - Reuters
Google News - AI & Models
4/28/2026OpenAI brings latest AI models, Codex coding agent to Amazon Bedrock - 93.3 The Drive
Google News - Foundation Models
4/28/2026OpenAI jumps out of Microsoft's bed, into Amazon's Bedrock - theregister.com
Google News - Foundation Models
4/28/2026