Anthropic locks in 5GW of AWS compute as Amazon deepens $100B AI infrastructure bet

“Our users tell us Claude is increasingly essential to how they work, and we need to build the infrastructure to keep pace with rapidly growing demand,” says Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic. “Our collaboration with Amazon will allow us to continue advancing AI research while delivering Claude to our customers, including the more than 100,000 building on AWS.”

The deal involves extension of Claude’s Asian and European infrastructure to accommodate increasing international demand.

The Claude platform will soon be natively available via AWS, leveraging existing AWS accounts and governance.

Amazon is putting down $5 billion on Anthropic now, plus up to another $20 billion later, a run-up to the $8 billion already invested.

Anthropic’s revenue has grown significantly, surpassing $30 billion in 2026, driven by increased enterprise, developer, and consumer demand for Claude.

The deal is designed to alleviate pressure on infrastructure from rapid growth and provide consistent service for all levels of Claude usage. The expanded relationship speaks to just how much demand Anthropic is driving within the cloud and data center infrastructure ecosystem. The training will be primarily based in the US, but inference will expand Anthropic’s footprint on a global basis, and in turn, drive uptake in additional add-on infrastructure services.

Claude remains the only frontier AI model available on AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.

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