OpenAI and Amazon Web Services said Tuesday they have broadened their strategic relationship to embed OpenAI’s artificial intelligence models into AWS environments. The update brings three new offerings to a limited-preview phase, enabling enterprises to run OpenAI capabilities within their existing AWS setups.
The three offerings launching in limited preview are:
- OpenAI models on AWS
- Codex on AWS
- Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI
As part of the expansion, OpenAI’s frontier model GPT-5.5 is now hosted on Amazon Bedrock. That allows customers to develop applications using OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 while keeping those applications inside their current AWS infrastructure and under the same security and operational controls they already use.
Codex, OpenAI’s coding assistant used by more than 4 million people each week, can now be driven by OpenAI models served from Amazon Bedrock. Customers will be able to configure Codex so that Bedrock acts as the provider, and usage routed through Bedrock will be eligible to count toward existing AWS cloud commitments. The Codex integration will be accessible through multiple developer interfaces, including the Codex command-line interface, the Codex desktop application, and a Visual Studio Code extension.
Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents, now powered by OpenAI models, are designed to let enterprises deploy agents that retain context over interactions, carry out multi-step workflows, and operate across business processes inside AWS environments. The agents are introduced as part of the limited-preview lineup alongside the other two offerings.
The companies said the integration is intended to let organizations make use of OpenAI’s capabilities without upending their current AWS systems. Specifically, the arrangement is positioned to preserve existing security controls and to respect compliance arrangements that enterprises have established within AWS.
All three offerings are being rolled out in a limited preview stage. The announcement focuses on the technical integration points - model availability on Bedrock, Codex configuration options, and managed agents - and emphasizes continuity with customers’ existing AWS infrastructure and governance frameworks.
Sectors potentially impacted: cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, developer tools.