The report appears consistent with OpenAI’s own February 27, 2026 announcement that AWS became the exclusive third-party cloud distribution provider for OpenAI Frontier, while OpenAI says Frontier is its enterprise platform for building and managing AI agents. That same OpenAI announcement also says AWS and OpenAI are expanding their partnership, including cloud distribution and model access on AWS.
So the apparent dispute is about whether the AWS hosting/distribution arrangement conflicts with Microsoft’s Azure exclusivity rights under the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership, rather than about whether the AWS deal exists at all. That interpretation is supported by the OpenAI partnership language and the news coverage you quoted.
If you want, I can also help you:
- summarize the key legal/contract issue in plain English, or
- compare the DigitalToday report against the original FT/Reuters-style reporting for consistency.
Source: 디지털투데이 Microsoft considers legal action over OpenAI-Amazon collaboration
