AWS is spending $1bn to put its engineers inside customers’ offices

Amazon Web Services Invests $1bn in Embedding Engineers Inside Customer Companies

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is committing $1bn to embed its own engineers inside customer companies. This move marks the first time a cloud giant has adopted a strategy initially built by Palantir, later followed by OpenAI and Anthropic.

On June 30, 2026, AWS announced it would invest this substantial sum in a new Forward Deployed Engineering unit.

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