Amazon Web Services and The Forrester Wave: AI Infrastructure Solutions, Q4 2025 announce a partnership

Decision brief

What changed

AWS stated it was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: AI Infrastructure Solutions, Q4 2025 and said it received the top score in the Strategy category. In AWS’s account of the report, Forrester evaluated 13 providers and gave AWS the highest possible score in 16 criteria tied to AI infrastructure offerings.

Why it matters

For leaders evaluating AI infrastructure vendors, this is a third-party endorsement that AWS can use to strengthen its position in competitive selection and renewal discussions, especially for organizations moving from AI pilots to production-scale deployments. The coverage specifically ties AWS’s positioning to infrastructure choice and scale options such as Trainium, Inferentia, and NVIDIA instances, which may influence platform standardization and procurement decisions. Decision-makers should treat this as a market signal rather than proof of fit, since the coverage does not provide comparative detail on cost, performance, or implementation outcomes for a specific enterprise context.

Affected roles

CEO CFO COO CTO

Evidence

The only provided coverage is an AWS Machine Learning post reporting AWS’s Leader designation in The Forrester Wave: AI Infrastructure Solutions, Q4 2025. It cites Forrester’s evaluation of 13 providers and AWS’s scores, but the evidence is vendor-published rather than independently reported across multiple outlets.

What remains uncertain

The provided coverage does not support the stated event as a 'partnership' announcement between AWS and Forrester; it supports recognition in an analyst report, not a partnership. It also leaves open how AWS ranked on specific execution, pricing, interoperability, security, and operational criteria relative to peers, and whether those strengths translate into better outcomes for a given buyer.

Monitor next

Watch for the underlying Forrester Wave report or independent buyer analyses that show AWS’s criterion-level strengths and weaknesses versus competing AI infrastructure providers.

Analytical support, not advice — assumptions and open questions stated above.

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