Overview
- Financial Times reports the agreement would make AWS the exclusive third‑party cloud for OpenAI’s Frontier enterprise platform.
- Microsoft contends its pact requires access to OpenAI’s models via Azure and says an AWS‑hosted Frontier could violate that arrangement.
- The dispute hinges on whether Frontier’s runtime is treated as stateful or stateless, a technical distinction that affects Azure routing obligations.
- In a joint statement last month, Microsoft and OpenAI said Azure remains the exclusive cloud for OpenAI’s models and that Frontier would continue to run on Azure.
- No lawsuit has been filed, and sources say the companies are discussing a resolution ahead of Frontier’s launch.