The General Services Administration and Amazon’s cloud business have reached a new agreement on making the company’s hosting infrastructure and related technologies available through OneGov, the agency’s procurement centralization initiative.
Amazon Web Services will provide agencies up to $1 billion in savings through December 2028 under the pact, which is non-exclusive and follows similar OneGov arrangements GSA previously made with Google and Oracle.
Agencies can obtain those savings via directive incentive credits aggregated across core AWS cloud services and other types of modernization support involving infrastructure and applications, GSA and AWS said Thursday. The savings are also available via AWS training and certification initiatives.
Federal agencies will also have access to education and training services in order to help employees learn about the offerings and how to use them in their jobs.
GSA and AWS set up the agreement to also have a significant artificial intelligence angle after the Trump administration’s release of its AI Action Plan in July to prioritize U.S. leadership in this technology domain.
“We are grateful for AWS’s partnership as GSA continues to equip agencies with modern solutions at scale and at savings,” Josh Gruenbaum, commissioner of GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service, said in a release. “Through this unique partnership, the federal government is poised to deliver on President Trump’s AI Action Plan and solidify its position as the global AI leader.”
All of the widely-available generative AI tools run off of hyperscale infrastructures like AWS’, which made open weight models from OpenAI’s ChatGPT offering available via its cloud on Tuesday.
In essence, GSA views the agreement with AWS as a way of helping agencies fast-track their adoption of AI tools and models for internal functions.
“This landmark agreement marks a significant milestone in the large-scale digital transformation of government services,” added AWS CEO Matt Garman. “As federal agencies adopt advanced technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning, AWS is positioned to not only help them achieve immediate operational efficiencies, but also to build the foundation for a more secure and innovative government of tomorrow.”
Separate to OneGov, GSA has a similar master agreement in place with Microsoft covering access to the company’s suite of cloud-based software and related services. This pact was inked in December and also includes what GSA calls “standard terms and conditions and cost reduction strategies” to establish an enterprise framework for agencies.
