Facebook parent Meta signs ‘multi-billion’ dollar agreement with Amazon
Meta has entered into a multi-year agreement to deploy tens of millions of Amazon Web Services’ Graviton5 central processing unit (CPU) chips to power its agentic AI and other AI initiatives.
The Graviton5 cores are designed for faster data processing and greater bandwidth, which Meta said are critical for AI systems that need to continuously reason through and execute tasks at scale. With the agreement, Meta, whose assets include Facebook and Instagram, will become one of the largest Graviton customers globally, the company said.
The companies did not disclose the financial terms of the transaction, which The Wall Street Journal described as a "multi-billion dollar” deal.
The chips will power various workloads at Meta that requires infrastructure that can handle billions of interactions while coordinating complex, multi-step agent workflows — exactly the kind of CPU-intensive work Graviton is designed for, Amazon said in a post on its website. The agreement builds on the companies’ longstanding relationship and supports Meta’s broader goal of diversifying compute to meet the demands of its AI systems, according to the post.
Amazon noted that agentic AI operates continuously, not in batches, requiring sustained computing power with fast communication between processing cores. It said that CPUs such as AWS Graviton are designed for these always-on reasoning workloads.
“This isn't just about chips; it's about giving customers the infrastructure foundation, as well as data and inference services, to build AI that understands, anticipates, and scales efficiently to billions of people worldwide," said Nafea Bshara, VP and distinguished engineer, Amazon. “Meta's expanded partnership, deploying tens of millions of Graviton cores, shows what happens when you combine purpose-built silicon with the full AWS AI stack to power the next generation of agentic AI.”
Santosh Janardhan, head of infrastructure at Meta, said that, as the company’s scales the infrastructure behind its AI ambitions, diversifying its compute sources is a strategic imperative.
“AWS has been a trusted cloud partner for years, and expanding to Graviton allows us to run the CPU-intensive workloads behind agentic AI with the performance and efficiency we need at our scale,” Janardha added.
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