Amazon Triples Nvidia GPU Order to 3 Million Chips as AI Infrastructure Demand Surges

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Amazon Web Services expanded its partnership with Nvidia, ordering an additional 2 million GPUs for deployment in 2027-2028. The move triples Amazon's total GPU commitment to 3 million chips in just five months, driven by surging demand from AI labs, enterprises, and government agencies.

Amazon and Nvidia Expand Partnership with Massive GPU Deployment

Amazon Web Services and NVIDIA announced a major expansion of their strategic collaboration, planning to deploy 2 million additional Nvidia GPUs across AWS's global infrastructure between 2027 and 2028

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. This expansion follows an earlier commitment made at NVIDIA GTC in March 2026 to add more than 1 million chips starting in 2026

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. The announcement effectively triples Amazon's total GPU order to 3 million chips in just five months

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Source: TweakTown

Source: TweakTown

The additional GPUs include Nvidia Blackwell Ultra, Rubin, and Rubin Ultra architectures, with deliveries beginning in the third quarter of this year and continuing through 2028

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. While neither company disclosed financial terms, industry analysts estimate the deal is worth tens of billions of dollars at current GPU prices

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. NVIDIA stated that since the initial commitment, "demand has exceeded those expectations," driven by surging AI demand from startups, enterprises, AI labs, and governments

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Full-Stack Integration Extends Beyond GPU Orders

The Amazon Nvidia partnership now extends far beyond chip procurement. AWS and NVIDIA are deepening their integration across the entire AI infrastructure stack, including CPUs, networking, open models, and software

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. Amazon Web Services will bring NVIDIA's Vera CPU-based infrastructure to AWS, with some processors deployed standalone and others integrated with Rubin GPUs

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. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang previously described Vera as opening a "brand new $200 billion TAM" for the company

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Source: Wccftech

Source: Wccftech

Networking upgrades will include extended NVLink Fusion technology paired with custom high-bandwidth memory to boost performance across large AI computing clusters

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. The companies are also integrating the NVIDIA platform with the AWS Nitro System and Elastic Fabric Adapter for enhanced security and reliability

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. Matt Garman, CEO of AWS, emphasized that customers "want the freedom to choose the best tools for their AI workloads, and they want confidence that everything works seamlessly together"

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Performance Gains and Government AI Infrastructure

The expanded AI infrastructure delivers substantial performance improvements for AI computing power. Upgrades to Amazon's analytics service using NVIDIA's cuDF software are expected to raise processing speeds to nearly 3.7 times those of standard configurations, while improving price performance by about 30%

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. Vector search capabilities on Amazon's search service are also improving dramatically, with index construction completing roughly 9 times faster when run on GPUs

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AWS is the first major cloud provider to offer compute instances accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs through Amazon EC2 G7 instances, which deliver 4.6 times faster AI inference performance and 2.1 times stronger graphics output compared to previous-generation systems

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. The plan also includes building US government AI factories with 100,000 GPUs on secure AWS infrastructure dedicated to federal and national-security workloads with Impact Level 6 security classifications

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Physical AI and Robotics Integration

Amazon Robotics is adopting NVIDIA's full physical AI platform to power its warehouse automation fleet

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. The robotics simulation stack includes NVIDIA Omniverse for simulation and digital twin capabilities, Cosmos world model platform, Isaac robotics development platform, and Jetson computing hardware for robots and edge AI

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. This integration aims to speed innovation in warehouse automation and next-generation robots through advanced agentic and physical AI capabilities

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On the enterprise side, AWS will serve NVIDIA's Nemotron family of open models through Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker, giving customers broader model choice for their AI applications

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. Jensen Huang noted that "NVIDIA and AWS have built one of the great growth engines of the AI era, and demand is running ahead of every forecast"

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Amazon's Own Chip Ambitions Continue Alongside Nvidia Expansion

Despite the massive expansion of the Amazon Nvidia partnership, Amazon continues investing in its own potentially competing AI chips. Amazon's AI chief Peter DeSantis revealed that AWS is in talks to sell its Trainium chips—direct alternatives to NVIDIA's H100 or Blackwell chips for deep learning workloads—to other companies for use in data centers

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. Amazon's Arm-built Graviton CPU also challenges traditional server chips from Intel and AMD

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Source: TechRadar

Source: TechRadar

Amazon reported that its custom chip business crossed a $25 billion annualized revenue run rate, driven by $225 billion in total commitments from AI labs including Anthropic and OpenAI

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. However, the scale of this new GPU order suggests that NVIDIA remains dominant in the AI chip market. NVIDIA reported $96.2 billion in second-quarter revenue, with data center revenue reaching $89 billion—up 117% year over year

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. The company expects revenue to reach $108 billion in the third quarter and has committed $279 billion to secure supply and manufacturing capacity, up substantially from $119 billion last quarter

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