Today, OpenAI and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have announced a multi-year, $38 billion strategic partnership to power OpenAI’s next-generation AI workloads. The agreement allows OpenAI immediate access to AWS’s world-class infrastructure, including clusters featuring hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs.

Internal dependencies again prove problematic Amazon Web Services’ US-EAST-1 region, which last week caused massive disruption to online services, is having another bad day as internal dependencies again prove problematic.

Amazon Web Services plays a central role in powering Zoox’s futuristic robotaxis. The Amazon subsidiary relies on the cloud provider’s infrastructure to train, test and refine the machine learning models that handle navigation and safety.

To meet this demand, OpenAI and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have entered a multi-year partnership which could reshape how AI tools are built and deployed. The collaboration, valued at $38 billion, gives OpenAI access to AWS’s vast infrastructure to run and scale its most advanced artificial intelligence workloads.

AWS’ global outage that shut down applications, websites and businesses was inevitable, says DataRobot CEO and former AWS and Google Cloud leader Debanjan Saha.