In more good news for Amazon, Snowflake signs $6B deal with AWS for AI CPU chips

Snowflake’s $6B, five-year deal with Amazon for AWS AI chips signals a major shift away from Nvidia dominance. By securing custom CPU capacity, Snowflake locks in lower inference costs and supply stability. For the 2026 AI economy, this validates hyperscaler chip strategies, intensifying price competition and reducing vendor lock-in across the cloud AI infrastructure layer.