AI is at the same inflection point cloud was a decade ago. At the @awscloud Global Meeting, Chief AI and Technology Officer Matt Wood highlighted how AWS is doing for AI what it did for cloud computing, making this technology broadly distributed and democratized for everybody.

24 launches. One heavy-lift rocket. Amazon Leo added six more Arianespace Ariane 6 flights, enough to carry 800+ satellites to orbit. Building on a multi-provider strategy that's already deployed nearly 400 satellites across 14 missions.⬇️

The future's going to need more builders with real expertise, and the best time to develop that skill is in school, before your first job. AI makes building easier than ever, but you still have to know what's worth making and how to get it right. So we're giving students access to a free full year of @kirodotdev, our spec-driven coding agent, at 132 universities across 18 countries. Go from idea to working application the same way teams at Delta, Ericsson, Siemens, Amazon, and others do. Lots of possibilities to explore. Can't wait to see what this generation invents.

BIG NEWS from @awscloud and @nvidia 🤝 We're announcing a major expansion of our strategic collaboration for next-gen AI infrastructure. ⬇️ Building on 16 years of joint innovation, AWS will deploy 2 million additional NVIDIA GPUs across its global infrastructure in 2027–2028—and that's just the start. The two companies are deepening their work together across AI factories, CPUs, networking, open models, data processing, and robotics. This expansion gives customers even more ways to build and deploy AI at scale.

Always fun to watch some of the best engineers on the planet test the limits of our prototypes. Super proud of the work this team does to build great products for customers. Thanks for letting me drop by!

🚨BREAKING: Amazon's drone delivery network is about to get a whole lot bigger. Prime Air plans to expand to nearly 500 cities and towns by the end of this year. That means many more customers across the country will be able to get items delivered by drone in as fast as 30 minutes. 📦 Millions of items under 5 lbs are eligible, from medications, to groceries, to electronics. More than 60% of the items customers are frequently purchasing from Amazon can arrive by drone. More here. ⬇️

Amazon's drones are reinventing what fast means. Here's an inside look at the future of delivery. ⚡ Nearly all items 5 pounds or less that fit in a large shoebox can be delivered ultrafast by drone—we're talking snacks, headphones, last-minute gifts, and more. Our drones use onboard cameras and sensors for navigation, obstacle detection, and safe delivery. Oh, and they're fully electric and can fly in light rain and a range of temperatures. ⬇️

Before it ever ships, Amazon packaging gets dropped, shaken, squeezed, and slammed in a lab designed to push it to the limit. ⬇️ Behind the scenes at Amazon's Packaging Innovation Lab, durability tests help us make sure reduced packaging, easier to recycle materials, and sometimes even the product’s own packaging can protect products during shipping. ✅ Drop tests simulate the bumps of transit ✅ Vibration tables replicate the rumble of road and air transport ✅ Compression machines mimic stacking in a truck The result is less material, less waste, and packaging built to go the distance.

Our strategic partnership with Novo Nordisk expands today as they announce that they've chosen AWS as their preferred cloud provider and strategic AI partner to help accelerate drug discovery. We will combine Novo Nordisk’s scientific expertise with AWS’s AI tools, including Amazon Bio Discovery (biology AI models to design and test drug candidates) and Bedrock AgentCore (infrastructure for building AI agents that run real workflows), and also stand up a co-innovation hub in London where their scientists and our engineers work side by side. We’re proud of our broad partnership across the two companies, which already spans AWS, Amazon Pharmacy, and One Medical. I’m optimistic about how we’ll use AI together to speed up drug discovery, and what that will mean for patients.

Matt Wood spent nearly 15 years helping build @awscloud AI—including Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock. Now, he's back as AWS Chief AI and Technology Officer. @SwamiSivasubram caught up with him to talk tokens, agents, @amazonquick, and the state of AI. See how it went. ⬇️

Customers kept choosing AWS across every layer of the stack in Q2: ▪️We grew 37% YoY on a very large base, our fastest growth in 18 quarters. ▪️Bedrock customer spend exceeded all prior quarters combined. ▪️AgentCore revenue grew more than 4x QoQ. ▪️Kiro usage tripled QoQ and it's up to 50% more cost-effective than others. Thanks to our customers, partners, and the @awscloud team for another strong quarter:

.@amazon has believed in giving customers choice across AI models for years. We have always supported open-weight models on Amazon Bedrock, starting back in 2023, and will continue to advocate for open ecosystems. No single model will define AI leadership. Customers need access to the most capable frontier models, alongside open-weight models they can adapt, optimize, and deploy for their own workloads. Open and closed models are complementary. Together, they expand access to AI, accelerate innovation, strengthen competition, and give organizations greater control over the technology they build. Successful leadership in AI will not be built around a single model or a single approach. It will be built on broad choice and the infrastructure to run those models securely, reliably, and at scale. While there are elements of the Open Weights and American AI Leadership letter that need further definition over time, we’re supportive of the macro direction and have signed it.