Amazon Web Services (AWS) will invest US$ 50 billion to expand artificial intelligence (AI) and supercomputing capabilities for its U.S. government customers. The multiyear project will begin in 2026, and add 1.3 GW of new AI and high-performance computing capacity across AWS Top Secret, AWS Secret, and AWS GovCloud (US) regions, by building data centers with advanced compute and networking technologies.
In a press release, Amazon said that the initiative will enable government agencies to accelerate discovery and decision-making across government missions. “By integrating simulation and modelling data with AI, agencies can achieve in hours what once took weeks or months through autonomous experimental steering and real-time feedback loops,” said the company.
It further said, “Research teams can process decades of global security data across hundreds of variables in real-time, transforming complex pattern analysis into instantly actionable insights while dramatically reducing massive datasets. Advanced computing can turn formerly fragmented supply chain, infrastructure, and environmental data into a unified picture.”
These capabilities enable agencies to build custom AI applications, accelerate model training, and analyze massive datasets at unprecedented speed.
“Our investment in purpose-built government AI and cloud infrastructure will fundamentally transform how federal agencies leverage supercomputing,” said AWS CEO Matt Garman. “We’re giving agencies expanded access to advanced AI capabilities that will enable them to accelerate critical missions from cybersecurity to drug discovery. This investment removes the technology barriers that have held government back and further positions America to lead in the AI era.”
This investment aims to strengthen critical U.S. missions in national security, scientific research, autonomous systems, cybersecurity, energy innovation, and healthcare. Amazon’s AI Action Plan and other federal priorities focus on securing the U.S.-based AI and cloud leadership.
The announcement reinforces AWS’s longstanding role in U.S. government cloud computing. AWS supports over 11,000 government agencies and has spent over a decade building secure infrastructure across all federal data classifications, including the first GovCloud region in 2011, and the first commercial Top Secret region in 2014.