Amazon to invest up to $50 billion in U.S. government AI cloud capacity

Amazon will invest up to $50 billion to expand AI and high-performance computing for AWS U.S. government customers, adding capacity across AWS Top Secret, AWS Secret and AWS GovCloud regions.

The program will begin construction in 2026 and add roughly 1.3 gigawatts of new secure compute through newly built data centers using advanced compute and networking, according to Amazon’s announcement.

Amazon says federal agencies will gain broader access to Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Nova, Anthropic Claude, select open-weights models, AWS Trainium chips and NVIDIA AI infrastructure for model training, deployment and agent workloads.

The company adds that AWS currently serves more than 11,000 U.S. government agencies, positioning the expansion for classified and unclassified missions that require higher capacity and security.

Amazon did not disclose a spend timeline for the full amount; additional site-level details will be provided as projects advance.