AWS brings OpenAI’s AI models and Codex programming assistant to its cloud

UPDATED 19:22 EDT / APRIL 28 2026 AI AWS brings OpenAI’s AI models and Codex programming assistant to its cloud by Maria Deutscher SHARE Amazon Web Services Inc. today made OpenAI Group PBC’s large language models available on its cloud platform. The algorithms are accessible through Amazon Bedrock alongside Codex, the ChatGPT developer’s programming assistant. In addition, AWS is rolling out a new offering called Bedrock Managed Agents. It’s designed to ease the task of building OpenAI-powered AI agents. “This is as easy as a click of a button now to build with access to models, to the API and Codex, and I think this just unlocks speed and scale” to put OpenAI models into operation on AWS, OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser said at a gathering of press and analysts today in San Francisco. AWS Chief Executive Matt Garman added that now its customers aren’t limited to using models from Amazon and Anthropic if they want to use OpenAI’s. “We don’t have to force people to make that choice,” he said. The introduction of the product integrations is not unexpected. On Monday, OpenAI revised its partnership agreement with Microsoft Corp., which was previously the only company that could offer the ChatGPT developer’s models via its cloud. The updated contract enables competing cloud providers to distribute OpenAI models. That AWS is the first Microsoft rival to join the fray is not too surprising. This past February, Amazon.com Inc. invested $15 billion in OpenAI and annou...