Amazon is making a landmark investment of up to $50 billion to expand AI and supercomputing for US government customers using AWS. Starting in 2026, this investment will add about 1.3 gigawatts of AI and supercomputing capacity by building new data centers with advanced technology in AWS Top Secret, AWS Secret, and AWS GovCloud regions. Federal agencies will have greater access to AWS’s full range of AI services, including Amazon SageMaker for training and customizing models, Amazon Bedrock for deploying models and agents, Amazon Nova, Anthropic Claude, top open-weight base models, AWS Trainium AI chips, and NVIDIA AI infrastructure. These tools will help agencies create custom AI solutions, manage large datasets, and boost productivity. The new capabilities will be available to all current and future US government customers in these regions, supporting America’s AI leadership and providing secure, scalable infrastructure for future innovation.
This investment will enable government agencies to dramatically accelerate discovery and policy-making outcomes. By combining simulation and modeling data with AI, agencies can now conduct analyses in hours rather than weeks or months. This means faster trend identification, quicker insight generation from large datasets, and more efficient decision-making. Research teams will be able to analyze decades of global security data and translate complex patterns into actionable recommendations, thereby improving responses to national security threats. Advanced computing will also integrate supply chain infrastructure and environmental data, providing a clearer operational picture. Defense and intelligence teams will gain the capability to automatically identify threats and create more effective response plans by processing vast amounts of satellite imagery, sensory data, and historical trends. By integrating AI with modeling and simulation, agencies will address challenges more quickly and with greater accuracy, leading to tangible improvements in mission outcomes.
This investment will transform how the US government and related industries accomplish high-impact missions, such as strengthening national security, advancing scientific research, and driving innovation. By supporting research in areas such as autonomous systems, cybersecurity, energy, and healthcare, the initiative directly enhances America’s leadership in computational discovery and innovation. It also aligns with the administration’s AI action plan and other advanced computing projects, prioritizing secure US-based AI and cloud infrastructure. Consequently, government and industry partners will see more efficient mission execution, faster research breakthroughs, and improved national competitiveness.
Matt Garman, CEO of AWS, stated that this investment in purpose-built government AI and cloud infrastructure will change how federal agencies utilize supercomputing. Agencies will have broader access to advanced AI capabilities, allowing them to accelerate critical missions such as cybersecurity and drug discovery. The investment aims to remove technology barriers for government agencies and enhance America’s leadership in AI.
Amazon’s investment highlights the critical roles of AI and supercomputing in advancing technology, safeguarding critical infrastructure, and driving industrial innovation. Federal customers and their partners are working to combine AI and high-performance computing, with the primary outcomes being accelerated problem-solving, improved research workflows, and the ability for researchers and engineers to address complex challenges more efficiently. This approach marks a significant shift from traditional high-performance computing to AI-powered discovery, enabling scientists to describe their challenges and receive actionable, simulation-backed recommendations from AI systems.
Building Resting on a Foundation of Government Innovation
Today’s announcement shows AWS’s leadership in government cloud computing, serving over 11,000 government agencies. AWS has supported large-scale government innovation for more than a decade, achieving several industry firsts:
- 2011: launched AWS GovCloud (US-West), becoming the first cloud provider to build infrastructure specifically for government security and compliance requirements.
- 2014: Introduced AWS Top Secret East, the first air-gapped commercial cloud accredited to support classified workloads
- 2017: launched AWS Secret Region, becoming the first cloud provider accredited across all US government data classifications: unclassified, secret, and top secret.
- 2018-2025: Expanded government cloud infrastructure with AWS GovCloud (US-East), AWS Top Secret West, and AWS Secret West regions
AWS’s experience building infrastructure of all sizes and offering strong security, compliance, and governance tools for both unclassified and classified data enables federal agencies to focus on their missions rather than managing complex on-site systems.
