AWS is investing billions to put AI into production for the public sector

Page overview Key takeaways 1 Key takeaways 2 AWS Secret Cloud for Industry extends classified infrastructure to the defense sector 3 AWS announces $1 billion cloud incentive program for U. S.

Intelligence Community 4 AWS Forward Deployed Engineering: $1 billion investment putting AI engineers on-site with customers 5 AWS powers critical scientific and energy research 6 The United Kingdom builds national-scale AI on AWS 7 Fleming Initiative works with AWS to tackle antimicrobial resistance Key takeaways AWS Secret Cloud for Industry gives defense contractors classified cloud access for contractor-owned workloads the first time.

A $1 billion framework gives intelligence agencies credits to accelerate their move to AWS cloud. A $1 billion investment puts thousands of AWS AI engineers on-site with customers to build in days. AWS partners with the UK's Fleming Initiative to combat antimicrobial resistance. U. S.

Secretary of Energy Chris Wright (right) speaks with Dave Levy, Vice President of Worldwide Public Sector at AWS, during a keynote at AWS Summit in Washington, D. C.

AWS Secret Cloud for Industry extends classified infrastructure to the defense sector Historically, cleared defense contractors have been required to build and maintain separate on-premises infrastructure to support classified programs. These systems are costly to deploy, rigid to operate, and can’t support the latest cloud capabilities like generative AI.

AWS Secret Cloud for Industry (ASCI) changes that. For the first time, defense contractors can run contractor-owned classified workloads on the same AWS infrastructure trusted by the Department of War, in their own physically and logically isolated environment purpose-built to meet the most demanding security and compliance requirements.

Organizations can move to the cloud without adopting a new security model; AWS handles authorization and private connectivity from their existing secure facilities.

Northrop Grumman is the first partner to deploy, and AWS is investing up to $20 million in credits over three years to help customers in the defense sector take advantage of all the benefits of the cloud. This matters because the missions our defense partners support don’t stop at the network boundary.

When an engineer needs to run AI inference on classified data or train models on sensitive operational information, they need infrastructure built for classified workloads and the secure-by-design standard that AWS provides to accomplish their mission.

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Intelligence Community (IC) made AWS its longest-standing cloud partner because of our unmatched scalability, security, and ability to handle classified data across multiple security levels.

But many workloads have yet to migrate, so we're launching the IC Accelerated Modernization Framework (ICAMF), a $1 billion program designed to eliminate the migration costs that have kept some locked in on-premises systems. The program is simple: migrate qualified workloads to AWS, receive credits.

Up to $1 billion is available through October 2030 for all IC agencies on the existing AWS contract. CIA Director John Ratcliffe, in his first public remarks in office, said technology is a top priority and confirmed the CIA will take advantage of ICAMF to dramatically strengthen the backbone of its entire IT architecture.

Ratcliffe described a tech renaissance at the agency: acquisition timelines cut from 12–24 months to under six, cyber elevated to a Mission Center, and the agency going all-in on AI.

Analysts are already using large language models to streamline repetitive tasks, surface hidden intelligence, and rapidly translate content that would have otherwise taken hundreds of hours to decode.

The ICAMF will help agencies overcome upfront hardware costs, ongoing power and facility expenses, and rigid vendor lock-in by tying credits directly to successful migrations. The more workloads agencies move, the more they save.

That frees budget for what matters most: deploying AI tools that help analysts work faster, surface hidden insights, and stay ahead of evolving threats. Together with the $50 billion infrastructure expansion we announced last fall, ICAMF reinforces our commitment to delivering the infrastructure, reliability, and economics needed to modernize at scale.

Learn more: IC Accelerated Modernization Framework AWS Forward Deployed Engineering: $1 billion investment putting AI engineers on-site with customers AWS Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) is a new global organization that will embed thousands of expert engineers with customers to co-develop and deploy AI solutions.

Backed by a $1 billion investment, the team partners with customers’ business, engineering, and security teams to create production AI systems that operate on top of an