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Amazon (AMZN) stock is up nearly 13% year to date, recently surpassing the $260 level to reach new all-time highs. A pivotal catalyst behind this rally is the sweeping restructuring of the Microsoft (MSFT)-OpenAI partnership announced on April 27, which dismantles Microsoft’s longstanding exclusive access to OpenAI’s models and clears the way for Amazon Web Services to distribute OpenAI’s frontier AI products directly through its Bedrock platform. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy moved swiftly, confirming that OpenAI’s models will be available to AWS customers within weeks, alongside a new Stateful Runtime Environment designed for long-running AI agent workloads.
