OpenAI said its frontier models and Codex are now generally available on Amazon Web Services, a move aimed at making it easier for enterprise customers to deploy AI inside the cloud environments they already use.
The rollout gives AWS customers access to OpenAI capabilities through familiar procurement, security, billing, and governance processes. OpenAI said that reducing those operational hurdles can help organizations move more quickly from testing AI tools to putting them into production.
The company framed the launch as a way to bring frontier AI into enterprise systems without forcing teams to rebuild their workflows around a new platform. Instead, customers can use OpenAI services within AWS environments and rely on controls they already have in place.
OpenAI said the capabilities are available in two forms on Amazon Bedrock. The first makes OpenAI models available for building AI applications with AWS-native security and governance features. The second brings Codex, OpenAI’s software engineering agent, into AWS for development work.
According to OpenAI, Codex is used by more than 5 million people each week. In AWS, it is positioned as a tool that can help teams write, review, debug, and modernize code within the same environments where they already develop and ship software.
OpenAI said the services are available in both commercial and GovCloud regions, which could broaden their appeal for enterprises and public-sector users that need tighter controls around deployment and compliance.
The company emphasized that many large organizations struggle with the path from AI interest to production deployment. Security reviews, compliance requirements, and procurement rules can slow adoption even when teams are eager to use advanced models.
By offering OpenAI capabilities through AWS, the companies said they hope to cut down on that friction. The arrangement is designed to let businesses spend less time managing operational barriers and more time building products and workflows.
Two customers, Amgen and Autodesk, were cited as early examples of companies evaluating the offering.
Amgen’s Sean Bruich said the pharmaceutical company is looking at how advanced models could support its work on potential new therapies while fitting within its responsible AI framework. He pointed to the importance of security, governance, and operational controls for scientific use cases where accuracy and decision quality matter.
Autodesk’s Ritesh Bansal said the company is reviewing how frontier models and AI-powered development tools on AWS infrastructure could support iterative design workflows and improve decision-making for customers.
OpenAI also said the AWS availability is only the start of a broader effort to bring more of its products into enterprise environments through the cloud platform.
The company pointed to future support for Daybreak, its planned vision for software defense and development. Daybreak is intended to include cyber models and Codex Security tools that could help defenders identify risks earlier, validate patches, analyze dependency risks, and improve code resilience.
OpenAI said AWS could provide a route for security teams to adopt those capabilities using existing governance and procurement systems. For now, the main focus is on helping customers deploy frontier models and Codex more easily in production settings.
The launch marks another step in OpenAI’s push to expand access to its most advanced tools through enterprise infrastructure, while AWS adds a major distribution channel for AI adoption across large organizations.