{"id":989358,"date":"2026-02-02T11:59:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T06:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989358"},"modified":"2026-02-02T11:59:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T06:29:02","slug":"after-lawsuit-one-of-the-biggest-amazon-customers-perplexity-signs-750-million-deal-with-microsoft-says-aws-remains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/02\/after-lawsuit-one-of-the-biggest-amazon-customers-perplexity-signs-750-million-deal-with-microsoft-says-aws-remains\/","title":{"rendered":"After lawsuit one of the biggest Amazon customers Perplexity signs $750 million deal with Microsoft, says: &#8216;AWS remains\u2026&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perplexity has signed a $750 million deal with Microsoft Azure. With this deal, the AI startup is expanding its business beyond its long-time cloud partner, Amazon. The three-year commitment will allow Perplexity to deploy AI models through Microsoft&#8217;s Foundry service, including those from OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI, a report claimed, citing people familiar with the deal, who requested anonymity to discuss a private matter. However, a Perplexity spokesperson has confirmed that as part of the Microsoft deal, the company hasn&#8217;t shifted spending from Amazon Web Services (AWS), which has long been the startup&#8217;s primary cloud provider.In a statement to Bloomberg, a Perplexity spokesperson said, \u201cWe are excited to partner with Microsoft for access to frontier models from X, OpenAI and Anthropic. AWS remains Perplexity&#8217;s preferred cloud infrastructure provider, and we&#8217;re excited to announce expansions of that partnership in the coming weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perplexity has signed a $750 million deal with Microsoft Azure. With this deal, the AI startup is expanding its business beyond its long-time cloud partner, Amazon. The three-year commitment will allow Perplexity to deploy AI models through Microsoft&#8217;s Foundry service, including those from OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI, a report claimed, citing people familiar with the deal, who requested anonymity to discuss a private matter. However, a Perplexity spokesperson has confirmed that as part of the Microsoft deal, the company hasn&#8217;t shifted spending from Amazon Web Services (AWS), which has long been the startup&#8217;s primary cloud provider.In a statement to Bloomberg, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}