Amazon Web Services (AWS) has committed to spending $50 billion on expanding its AI and supercomputing capacity for US government customers.

The cloud giant will break ground on the projects in 2026, and expects to add nearly 1.3GW of compute capacity across the AWS Top Secret, AWS Secret, and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions at all classification levels by building new data centers.

According to AWS, this will give federal agencies access to its AI services, and will also see the deployment of AWS Trainium AI chips and Nvidia AI infrastructure in the new facilities.

AWS says the increased compute capacity will enable the government's research teams to process decades of global security data and generate complex pattern analysis, while defense and intelligence agencies will be able to "automatically detect threats and generate response plans" by processing satellite imagery, sensor data, and historical patterns at an "unprecedented scale."

"Our investment in purpose-built government AI and cloud infrastructure will fundamentally transform how federal agencies leverage supercomputing,” said AWS CEO Matt Garman. “We're giving agencies expanded access to advanced AI capabilities that will enable them to accelerate critical missions from cybersecurity to drug discovery. This investment removes the technology barriers that have held government back and further positions America to lead in the AI era."

AWS has long been serving the US government with dedicated cloud regions. It launches the AWS GovCloud (US-West) in 2011, AWS Top Secret-East - an air-gapped cloud for classified workloads - in 2014, the AWS Secret Region in 2017, and since 2018 has added a second GovCloud region (US-East), AWS Top Secret-West, and AWS Secret-West regions. The latter was only launched in October 2025. The company does not reveal the exact locations of these regions.

Other countries also trust AWS with their most secret information. In the UK, Britain's three spy agencies were revealed to be using AWS to host top-secret data in 2021, and the cloud giant is also working with the Australian government, winning a $1.3 billion contract in 2024 to build a data center specifically for top-secret information and enabling staff from agencies such as the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and the Australian Secret Intelligence Service to collaborate without using the open Internet.

In August 2025, AWS agreed to provide the US government with up to $1bn in cloud discounts.