'Tens of millions of Graviton cores': AWS scores huge coup as Meta 'buys' hundreds of thousands of CPUs and infrastructure, confirming Jeff Bezos' hyperscaler as the essential backbone of the agentic AI Era in a major blow to AMD and Intel ambitions

Meta relies on AWS instead of expanding internal data centers

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News By Efosa Udinmwen published 1 May 2026

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  • Meta commits to tens of millions of hosted Graviton cores
  • The deal includes infrastructure, networking, power, and management layers
  • Graviton5 is designed for sustained processing and multi-step task execution

Meta has signed an agreement to deploy tens of millions of AWS Graviton Arm cores, making it one of the largest Graviton customers in the world.

The deal marks a major expansion of the long-standing partnership between Meta and AWS, but with a critical difference: Meta is not just buying chips; it is buying the entire infrastructure around them. It is a wholesale agreement, not a hardware purchase.

"As we scale the infrastructure behind Meta's AI ambitions, diversifying our compute sources is a strategic imperative," said Santosh Janardhan, head of infrastructure at Meta.

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Why agentic AI is driving massive demand for CPUs

While GPUs remain essential for training large AI models, the rise of agentic AI is creating massive demand for CPU-intensive workloads.

Agentic systems perform real-time reasoning, code generation, search operations, and orchestration of multi-step tasks, all of which rely heavily on CPU power.

Graviton5 is purpose-built for these workloads, offering faster data processing and greater bandwidth than general-purpose alternatives.

The chip features 192 Arm Neoverse V3 cores, 600 megabytes of total cache, and support for DDR5 8800 memory and PCIe Gen6.

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