AWS CEO on rebuilding the cloud for agents: $220B 2026 CapEx, 2M NVIDIA GPUs ordered
a16z · x · 2026-10-08
a16z podcast conversation with AWS CEO Matt Garman on rebuilding AWS for the agentic era.
- Scale: $220B in CapEx planned for 2026, two million NVIDIA GPUs on order; AWS's own AI chips are sold out through next year.
- Business: $170B annual revenue growing 37%; 30-40% of revenue started as startup customers.
- Agent-oriented moves: a 30-second AWS account with no credit card so agents can sign up autonomously; Garman argues agents don't need bulletproof databases.
- Supply & power: AWS builds its own power plants and is planning for the next supply shortage; one case saved a county $5K per resident.
- Security & boundaries: why AWS won't sell every GPU to frontier labs; Bedrock's promise never to send customer data to model providers; new AI security offerings.
- Bubble: Garman says he isn't worried, and discusses what's holding enterprise agents back.
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