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What's Next with AWS

Watch AWS and OpenAI leaders discuss what’s next in agentic AI and how businesses can rethink the way they operate.

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What happened at the event

On April 28, AWS and OpenAI discussed what's next in agentic AI and announced new capabilities that show how agents are changing the way businesses and builders work.

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Watch the highlights

Here’s what happened on April 28 and why it matters. See Julia White, CMO of AWS, recap the biggest moments from the event in just a few minutes.

Explore the agentic AI announcements from the event
AWS and OpenAI

AWS and OpenAI announce expanded partnership

Latest frontier models, Codex, and Bedrock Managed Agents come to the infrastructure millions of organizations already trust.
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OpenAI models on Bedrock

OpenAI frontier models on Amazon Bedrock

The latest OpenAI models are available on Amazon Bedrock through the same services you already use for model access, fine-tuning, and orchestration.
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Codex on Bedrock

Codex, the OpenAI coding agent, on Bedrock

Bring Codex's Al-powered software development together with the security, data residency, and governance of Bedrock.
Learn about Codex on Bedrock
Bedrock Managed Agents

OpenAI-powered agents on the cloud you trust

Bedrock Managed Agents is optimized to unlock the full potential of OpenAI models, and enables customers to quickly build production-ready agents with faster execution and sharper reasoning.
Discover Bedrock Managed Agents
Explore OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Quick

The AI assistant that changes how you work

Quick connects to everything you use, learns how you work, and takes action on your behalf—scheduling, building dashboards, sending emails, and following up. Set it up in minutes. You'll wonder how you ever worked without it.
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Deeply personalized

Quick learns you — not just your prompts.

Quick builds a living understanding of your role, your team, your priorities, and your relationships. Every answer is shaped by your context, not just your words. While other AI tools start from scratch, Quick gets better every day.
Get started with Quick
Work on autopilot

Turn repetitive work into automated intelligence

Processes that used to require constant monitoring now run on autopilot. Quick watches for changes, flags what matters, and takes action automatically. Anyone on your team can build interactive tools and apps — no code or IT ticket.
Learn more about Quick
AI you can trust

Enterprise-grade security and compliance, built in

Quick runs on AWS, so it's enterprise-grade from day one. It meets the security, data residency, and regulatory requirements your industry demands. Role-based access controls, audit logging, and full visibility — your data stays yours.
Explore Quick security
Try Quick for free
Amazon Connect

Transform business functions with agentic AI

A new family of agentic solutions that enable employees and agents to work together to transform business functions at scale. Built on real-world learnings from operating at Amazon.
Product announcements
Amazon Connect Customer

Transform customer interactions into exceptional experiences

Deliver intelligent experiences across every customer touchpoint. Scale with adaptive, agentic self-service for customers and real-time guidance for agents.
Explore Connect Customer
Amazon Connect Decisions

Shift supply chain teams from firefighting to proactive planning

AI teammates help you stay ahead of supply chain issues by adapting to your business, learning from your team, and continuously improving your operations.
Learn about Decisions
Amazon Connect Talent

Accelerate quality hiring from weeks to hours

Turn candidate conversations into same-day hires. AI-powered hiring helps recruiters hire quality candidates faster while reducing human preconceptions.
Learn more about Talent
Amazon Connect Health

Deliver better care and patient engagement

Agentic AI that handles high-volume administrative tasks such as appointment scheduling, clinical documentation, and medical coding, keeping healthcare providers informed and in control.
Learn about Health
Discover Amazon Connect

Watch the full discussion

View the full discussion between AWS and OpenAI leaders on what’s changing in agentic AI, what launched, and what businesses need to move from experimentation to real impact.   

Speakers

Matt Garman, CEO, AWS

Missing alt text value Matt joined Amazon in 2006 and is currently the CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Matt sits on Amazon’s executive senior leadership team, known as the S-Team. He has held several leadership positions in AWS during his time at Amazon. Matt previously served as Senior Vice President of the Sales, Marketing, and Global Services organization in AWS as well as Vice President of the Amazon EC2 and Compute Services businesses for AWS for more than 10 years. He started at Amazon when AWS first launched in 2006 and served as one of the first product managers, helping to launch the initial set of AWS services. Prior to Amazon, Matt spent time in product management roles at early-stage internet startups.
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Colleen Aubrey SVP, Applied AI Solutions, AWS

Missing alt text value Colleen Aubrey is Senior Vice President of Applied AI Solutions at AWS. Colleen leads the team responsible for building a new pillar of business for AWS: purpose-built agentic applications that leverage Amazon's unique experience and expertise to help businesses improve outcomes using Amazon Connect. Her team consists of Amazon Connect, AWS Training and Certification, AWS Support, demand planning, secure workplace enablement, autonomous retail, and accelerating research in life sciences. This team’s ambition is to enable businesses of all sizes to put AI to work and innovate with Amazon AI teammates. Prior to AWS, Colleen led Amazon Advertising product teams, and for more than 15 years, helped build Amazon’s advertising products and services into an industry-leading ad tech offering. Colleen joined Amazon in 2005, leading the UK Marketplace Sales team based in London.
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Julia White, VP & CMO, AWS

Missing alt text value Julia White is the Chief Marketing Officer for Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this role, she leads a global team of marketers dedicated to inspiring and empowering AWS customers, developers, and partners to maximize their AI and cloud potential. Julia brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to her position at AWS. Prior to joining the company in 2024, she served as the Chief Marketing & Solutions Officer at SAP, preceded by her notable 20-year tenure at Microsoft, where she led product marketing for Office 365 and Azure. Her extensive experience in the tech industry has equipped her with a deep understanding of enterprise software, AI & cloud computing, and digital transformation.
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Jigar Thakkar, VP, Agentic AI for Business, Quick, AWS

Missing alt text value Jigar Thakkar serves as Vice President of Quick at Amazon Web Services, where he leads the development of next-generation agentic AI applications that empower business users to work smarter and faster. With over 25 years of experience driving digital transformation across global financial services and major technology platforms, Jigar combines deep technical expertise with a proven track record of scaling transformative products that serve millions of users worldwide.
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Denise Dresser, Chief Revenue Officer, OpenAI

Missing alt text value Denise Dresser is Chief Revenue Officer at OpenAI, overseeing all commercial functions, where she leads global revenue growth and go-to-market strategy as organizations adopt AI at scale. She joins OpenAI from Slack, where she served as CEO, leading the company through its integration with Salesforce while advancing AI-powered workflows. Previously, Denise spent a decade at Salesforce leading enterprise sales for some of the company’s largest and most complex global customers. She began her career in enterprise sales leadership at Oracle.
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Anthony Liguori, VP/Distinguished Engineer, AWS

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