Amazon announced plans to invest up to $50 billion to significantly expand its artificial intelligence and high-performance computing infrastructure for U.S. government agencies. The initiative, scheduled to break ground in 2026, will add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of new AI and supercomputing capacity across AWS Top Secret, AWS Secret, and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. The expansion will rely on a new network of data centers equipped with advanced computing and networking technologies tailored to federal missions.
The investment will broaden access to AWS’s suite of AI services for federal agencies, including Amazon SageMaker AI for model training, Amazon Bedrock for model and agent deployment, Amazon Nova, Anthropic Claude, leading open weights foundation models, AWS Trainium chips, and NVIDIA AI infrastructure. These tools are expected to support the development of custom AI applications, improve management of large-scale datasets, and enhance mission productivity. The expanded capacity will be available to both existing and future government customers operating across all security classification levels.
The company noted that the expanded infrastructure will support federal agencies as they accelerate discovery, analysis, and decision-making. The integration of AI with modeling and simulation is expected to reduce timelines that once required weeks or months by enabling real-time feedback loops and autonomous experimental steering. Research teams will be able to analyze decades of security and environmental data simultaneously, supporting rapid threat detection, supply chain modeling, infrastructure assessment, and other national security and scientific priorities.
Amazon said that the investment will help advance government missions in areas such as autonomous systems, cybersecurity, energy innovation, and healthcare research. The initiative aligns with the Administration’s AI Action Plan and is positioned as a strategic step to reinforce America’s leadership in high-performance computing and AI development.
AWS highlighted its long track record of supporting public sector cloud modernization efforts. The company noted milestones, including the 2011 launch of AWS GovCloud (US West), the 2014 introduction of AWS Top Secret East as the first air-gapped commercial cloud for classified workloads, the 2017 launch of AWS Secret Region, and subsequent expansion across East and West regions at multiple classification levels. According to Amazon, these capabilities demonstrate AWS’s ability to securely scale infrastructure while enabling agencies to focus on mission outcomes rather than operational complexity.
The company emphasized that the new investment will both broaden national security capabilities and strengthen the industrial base that supports them. The convergence of AI, HPC, expert models, and natural language interfaces will enable researchers and engineers to interact with complex problems in more intuitive ways, representing what AWS describes as a shift from traditional HPC workflows to AI-accelerated discovery.
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“Our investment in purpose-built government AI and cloud infrastructure will fundamentally transform how federal agencies leverage supercomputing. 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.”
Matt Garman, CEO, AWS
