TechCrunch AIMay 27, 2026, 8:10 PMJulie Bort

Snowflake signs $6B AWS deal for AI CPU chips

Original: In more good news for Amazon, Snowflake signs $6B deal with AWS for AI CPU chips

Snowflake signed a five-year, $6B AWS deal to secure chips for AI workloads.

Snowflake has signed a massive five-year agreement with Amazon worth $6 billion to secure chips for AI usage. The deal is framed as another win for AWS as major data and cloud platforms lock in long-term compute capacity. TechCrunch also notes that Nvidia is being put on notice as alternative AI chip supply paths gain attention.

TechCrunch reports that Snowflake has signed a new five-year major agreement with Amazon, totaling US$6 billion, aimed at securing the chip supply needed for AI usage. The original article describes this deal as another piece of good news for Amazon, because it means AWS has landed an important customer and a long-term commitment in the AI infrastructure market. For Snowflake, the core significance of such an agreement lies in locking in computing resources ahead of time, allowing its data cloud and AI-related services to have more stable hardware support over the coming years.

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