Amazon is already offering new OpenAI products on AWS

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TLDR

  • AWS added OpenAI models, Codex, and a new agent service to Bedrock the day after Microsoft’s exclusivity ended.

Key Facts

  • Microsoft agreed to end exclusive rights to OpenAI products on Monday, April 28, 2026.
  • AWS Bedrock now offers OpenAI’s latest models and its code-writing service Codex.
  • Amazon launched Bedrock Managed Agents, built on OpenAI’s reasoning models, with agent steering and security features.
  • Amazon CEO Andy Jassy called the Microsoft/OpenAI announcement “very interesting” on the same day it dropped.

Why It Matters

  • The timing signals AWS had been waiting on the exclusivity clause before publicly committing to OpenAI on Bedrock.
  • Microsoft is separately building an agent product powered by Anthropic, OpenAI’s direct competitor.

Julie Bort, TechCrunch · 2026-04-28 · Read the original

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