AWS named Leader in Forrester AI Infrastructure Wave

This recognition comes as AI adoption accelerates, and businesses need infrastructure that supports the full lifecycle of AI workloads—from training and fine-tuning to inference at scale. Forrester's evaluation assessed 13 providers on criteria spanning current offering, strategy, and customer feedback, with AWS achieving the highest possible score (5.00) in 16 criteria, including architecture, security, and innovation.

The report underscores AWS's strategy of offering both proprietary AI chips (AWS Inferentia and AWS Trainium) and NVIDIA GPU instances, allowing customers to match compute to each workload without lock-in. This approach is particularly relevant as Forrester identifies sustainability and flexibility—addressing power, cooling, and avoiding vendor lock-in—as key elements of successful AI infrastructure. AWS's strong performance in the Strategy category, including vision and roadmap, signals continued investment in silicon development and closer integration with services like Amazon SageMaker.