Microsoft Loves OpenAI And Lets it Go

And my AI poem generator's strange usage

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Thomas Smith
April 29, 2026

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Microsoft Loves OpenAI And Lets it Go

To paraphrase the immortal Sting, if you love something, you shouldn’t jealously hoard it all for yourself. This week, Microsoft followed Sting’s advice and let OpenAI be free, rather than keeping the company’s tech locked down in its own cloud.

To be clear, OpenAI’s tech decidedly isn’t free for you to use. But it’s free from the closely-guarded garden of Azure. And that’s a big deal for one Microsoft cloud competitor: Amazon.

AWS says OpenAI models, Codex, and Managed Agents are now available in limited preview on Amazon Bedrock. That puts OpenAI inside Amazon's enterprise cloud stack for the first time in a meaningful way, and gives customers another path to frontier models outside Microsoft's ecosystem. For buyers who already live in AWS, that's not a side note -- it's a routing change.

The bigger point is distribution. If OpenAI's products can be bought and governed through AWS, enterprise AI gets a little less tied to one cloud vendor and a little more normal, in the boring, expensive, multi-cloud way companies actually operate.

Axios and TechCrunch both frame this as an important shift in the cloud relationship. What to watch next: whether the preview widens to general availability, whether Microsoft pushes back, and whether large customers start standardizing on OpenAI through AWS instead of treating it as a Microsoft-only option.

My Stuff

Along with my friend Jared Bauman, I built an AI-powered poem generator, and released it onto the open internet.

I had no idea how people would use it. And it turns out, the answer is fascinating.

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