Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced a major expansion of its partnership with OpenAI, introducing a suite of new offerings that bring OpenAI’s frontier AI models and agent capabilities directly into Amazon Bedrock. The move is aimed at enabling enterprises to build and deploy advanced AI applications with the security, governance, and scalability of AWS infrastructure.

The announcement includes three new offerings, currently in limited preview: OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock, Codex on Amazon Bedrock, and Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI. Together, these solutions are designed to give organisations greater flexibility to choose and deploy leading AI models while maintaining enterprise-grade controls.

With OpenAI models now available on Amazon Bedrock, AWS customers can, for the first time, access OpenAI’s latest models through the same APIs and tools they already use for model orchestration, fine-tuning, and deployment. This enables enterprises to evaluate and run OpenAI models alongside other providers such as Anthropic, Meta, Mistral, Cohere, and Amazon within a unified environment.

Codex on Amazon Bedrock brings OpenAI’s widely used coding agent into AWS environments, allowing enterprise developers to automate coding tasks, refactor systems, generate tests, and accelerate software development at scale. The integration supports access through APIs as well as tools like the Codex CLI, desktop app, and Visual Studio Code extension.

AWS also introduced Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents, powered by OpenAI, which aim to simplify the deployment of production-ready AI agents. The offering combines OpenAI’s advanced reasoning models with AWS’s infrastructure to enable agents capable of executing complex, multi-step tasks with built-in memory, identity management, and governance controls. Each agent operates within a secure AWS environment, with full auditability and integration into existing enterprise systems.

In a parallel development, AWS unveiled Amazon Quick, a new desktop AI assistant designed to unify workflows across applications, tools, and data. The assistant enables users to build presentations, create intelligent dashboards, and automate multi-step tasks while integrating with enterprise applications and local systems in a single interface.

All new offerings inherit AWS’s enterprise-grade security framework, including identity and access management, encryption, private connectivity, and compliance integrations. Customers can also consolidate AI usage within their existing AWS commitments, simplifying procurement and cost management.

Industry leaders have welcomed the move. Ben Kus, CTO at Box, noted that the integration enables developers to combine OpenAI’s advanced AI capabilities with AWS’s scalability and security to build production-ready AI applications that can learn, adapt, and operate with enterprise-grade governance.

With this expanded collaboration, AWS and OpenAI aim to accelerate enterprise adoption of AI by bridging cutting-edge model capabilities with robust cloud infrastructure, positioning Amazon Bedrock as a central platform for next-generation AI development.