Snowflake signs a five-year $6 billion AI chip supply deal with AWS

First recorded May 27, 2026 · Latest coverage May 27, 2026 · 1 source

Snowflake has signed a five-year agreement worth $6 billion with Amazon Web Services to secure chips for AI workloads, according to TechCrunch. The reported deal points to a major long-term compute procurement commitment between a large data platform company and a leading cloud provider.

Why it matters: Large multiyear infrastructure commitments are an important signal of sustained AI demand and of how major software companies are securing access to compute outside the Nvidia-centered narrative. A deal of this scale could strengthen AWS's position in AI infrastructure while shaping Snowflake's capacity planning and cost structure for AI products and services.

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• In more good news for Amazon, Snowflake signs $6B deal with AWS for AI CPU chips TechCrunch · May 27, 2026