Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced a landmark commitment of up to $50 billion to build purpose-built artificial-intelligence and high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure dedicated to U.S. federal government agencies. Beginning in 2026, this investment will add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of new compute capacity across AWS’s secure government cloud regions including AWS Top Secret, AWS Secret, and AWS GovCloud (US) enabling classification-level workloads for government use. Federal agencies will gain expanded access to AWS’s full suite of AI services such as Amazon SageMaker for model training and customization, Amazon Bedrock for model and agent deployment, Amazon Nova, Anthropic Claude, and other leading open-weight foundation models, supported by AWS Trainium and NVIDIA AI hardware infrastructure.
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According to AWS CEO Matt Garman, “Our investment in purpose-built government AI and cloud infrastructure will fundamentally transform how federal agencies leverage supercomputing,” adding that it will enable agencies to “accelerate critical missions from cybersecurity to drug discovery.” The expanded capacity and services will speed up slow workflows. Tasks such as modeling, simulation, and data analysis will evolve. This change will impact defense, scientific research, energy innovation, and healthcare. What once took weeks or months can now be done in hours. AWS provides secure, scalable, and high-performance infrastructure for government needs. This helps solidify America’s leadership in AI-driven national security, research, and innovation.
