OpenAI and AWS: A Strengthened Alliance for Enterprise AI

OpenAI and AWS: Strengthened Strategic Partnership

OpenAI and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have decided to expand their strategic partnership, providing businesses with the opportunity to leverage OpenAI's advanced capabilities within their AWS environments. This collaboration aims to integrate cutting-edge models, agents, and tools into the systems, security protocols, and workflows already utilized by AWS customers.

The expansion of this partnership focuses on three key areas, now available in limited preview:

• OpenAI Models on AWS
• Codex on AWS
• Managed Agents Amazon Bedrock, powered by OpenAI

These new capabilities enable organizations to harness OpenAI technologies for application development, software engineering, and agent workflows, all while seamlessly integrating into AWS infrastructure and processes.

Accessibility of OpenAI Models and APIs

For many businesses, integrating AI at scale requires the use of the best models within existing systems. In this context, OpenAI models, including the advanced GPT-5.5 model, are now available on Amazon Bedrock. Customers can develop with these models while benefiting from AWS's services, security controls, and identity systems.

For developers, this offers increased flexibility in using OpenAI, whether to create new AI applications or to integrate intelligence into existing products. Companies benefit from a unique path from experimentation to production, with OpenAI's capabilities available in their AWS environments.

Codex: A Powerful Tool for Developers

Codex, used by over 4 million people each week, is now accessible on AWS. This tool is essential throughout the software development lifecycle, enabling code writing, system explanations, application refactoring, test generation, and modernization of legacy codebases.

Codex is also used to accelerate research, analysis, and document-based work by connecting to daily applications and tools. Organizations can now feed Codex with OpenAI models provided by Amazon Bedrock, offering enterprise-level security, billing, and high availability.

Customers start by configuring Codex to use Bedrock as a provider. This gives them the enterprise-level attributes they expect from AWS, including security, billing, and high availability. All customer data is processed by Amazon Bedrock, and eligible customers can apply the use of Codex to their AWS cloud commitments.

Codex on Bedrock is available in limited preview. Customers can configure Codex to use Amazon Bedrock via the Bedrock API, starting with Codex CLI, the Codex desktop application, and the Visual Studio Code extension.

Launch of Managed Agents Amazon Bedrock

The Managed Agents Amazon Bedrock, powered by OpenAI, offer businesses an innovative way to deploy advanced agents within their AWS environments. These agents can maintain context, execute multi-step workflows, and manage complex business processes.

For businesses, this means a faster transition from experimentation to production, with development aligned with AWS's infrastructure and operational standards. Managed Bedrock Agents simplify deployment, orchestration, and governance while integrating Amazon's security and compliance controls.

For companies, Managed Bedrock Agents allow teams to focus on creating useful agents for real work, rather than assembling the surrounding infrastructure. This manages the most challenging aspects of deployment, tool usage, orchestration, and governance, with built-in integration to Amazon's security and compliance controls. The result is a quicker path from prototype to production for agents capable of operating in real enterprise environments.

A Leap Forward for Enterprise AI

This strategic partnership between OpenAI and AWS aims to facilitate the deployment of advanced AI at production scale. With OpenAI models, Codex, and Managed Agents now available on Amazon Bedrock, businesses have a faster and more secure path to integrate AI into their operations. The possibilities offered by this collaboration promise to accelerate innovation and efficiency within organizations.