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AWS TO ADD 2M NVIDIA GPUS BY 2028

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THU, AUG 27, 2026

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Amazon Web Services plans to deploy 2 million Nvidia Blackwell Ultra, Rubin, and Rubin Ultra GPUs across its data centers in 2027 and 2028, expanding its AI infrastructure beyond the 1 million GPUs announced in March.

The expansion underscores AWS's commitment to scaling generative AI capabilities amid intensifying competition in cloud computing. The deployment adds to AWS's existing orders, bringing the total GPU procurement to 3 million units over the next two years. Blackwell Ultra, Rubin, and Rubin Ultra represent Nvidia's latest generation of accelerators designed for large-scale AI workloads. The staggered rollout across 2027 and 2028 reflects both supply chain realities and AWS's infrastructure build-out timeline. The move positions AWS to meet surging demand for AI compute resources from enterprises and startups. Major cloud providers including Microsoft and Google have similarly announced massive GPU investments to support foundation model training and inference services. AWS has not disclosed pricing implications or specific service launch timelines for infrastructure powered by these new GPUs.

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