Meta buys huge AWS Graviton capacity
- Meta said Friday, April 24, that it will add tens of millions of Amazon Web Services Graviton cores to its infrastructure under a multiyear agreement to run agentic artificial intelligence workloads. - Amazon said the deployment starts with tens of millions of Graviton cores and can expand over time, making Meta one of the largest Graviton customers as it broadens beyond graphics processors. - The deal extends Meta’s portfolio approach to AI computing, mixing central processors, graphics chips and in-house silicon as costs rise. (about.fb.com)
Meta said Friday it will bring tens of millions of Amazon Web Services Graviton cores into its computing fleet for agentic artificial intelligence. (about.fb.com) Amazon said the agreement starts with tens of millions of Graviton cores and can expand as Meta’s AI usage grows. CNBC reported the deal will last at least three years and covers hundreds of thousands of chips. (press.aboutamazon.com) (cnbc.com) The companies said the processors will be used for “agentic AI” workloads, the software systems Meta is building to carry out multistep tasks with less human prompting. Meta said Graviton fits work that needs high throughput and lower cost than using graphics processors for everything. (about.fb.com) (press.aboutamazon.com) Graviton is Amazon’s Arm-based central processor, not the graphics chip usually associated with training large AI models. The deal shows Meta is separating AI jobs by hardware type instead of sending every workload to Nvidia systems. (techcrunch.com) (about.fb.com) Meta said no single chip architecture can efficiently serve every workload, and described the AWS agreement as part of a broader compute portfolio. The company said that portfolio also includes Nvidia graphics processors, AMD and Arm-based systems, and Meta’s own custom silicon. (about.fb.com) Bloomberg reported the agreement is worth billions of dollars over multiple years, giving Amazon a large external win for chips designed by its Annapurna Labs unit. Amazon executive Nafea Bshara said Meta will rent access to the Graviton line for its AI efforts. (bloomberg.com) (geekwire.com) The agreement adds to a burst of infrastructure spending by Meta in April. CNBC said the company had already disclosed roughly $48 billion of artificial intelligence infrastructure commitments with CoreWeave and Nebius in recent weeks. (cnbc.com) For Amazon, the sale is evidence that its in-house chips are moving beyond internal cloud economics into the center of outside AI buildouts. For Meta, it is another sign that the race for AI capacity now includes a lot more than graphics processors. (techcrunch.com) (about.fb.com)
