AWS recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: AI Infrastructure Solutions, Q4 2025
Amazon Web Services Kim Gibbons
AWS was named a Leader in Forrester’s AI infrastructure review for Q4 2025. It also got the top Strategy score, which is the part that says where this stuff is headed.
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AWS says Forrester has named it a Leader in The Forrester Wave: AI Infrastructure Solutions, Q4 2025, a report that looked at 13 providers. The company says it earned the highest score in the Strategy category, and the report gave AWS the top possible mark, 5.00, in 16 criteria.
The pitch here is straightforward: AI infrastructure has to do more than run generic compute. It needs to handle training, fine-tuning and inference, and it has to do that without wasting power, storage or network capacity. Forrester’s framework also puts a lot of weight on flexibility and avoiding lock-in, which is a polite way of saying customers don’t want to get trapped paying for the wrong hardware forever.
AWS leans hard on that point. It offers its own chips, Inferentia and Trainium, alongside NVIDIA GPU instances, so customers can choose what fits the workload instead of betting on one path. Forrester said that mix gives customers cost-efficient options for inference without hardware lock-in, while still leaving room for GPUs when performance peaks matter.
The report also praised AWS’ roadmap, its integration plans around services such as Amazon SageMaker, and its work with leading model developers. Forrester said AWS is especially strong for companies running high-volume or elastic inference workloads that care about cost efficiency but still need access to GPUs for peak performance scenarios. That is a very cloud-era sentence, but the meaning is plain enough: buy flexibility now, keep your options open later.
AWS is using the recognition to steer people toward its AI infrastructure and Amazon Bedrock, its managed platform for building, customizing and deploying generative AI applications. The report itself carries the usual Forrester objectivity warning: it does not endorse any company, product or service.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is the part of AI buying that matters more than the demo videos: infrastructure, not chatbot polish. AWS is making the sensible bet that customers want choice, cost control and a way out of lock-in, which is less glamorous than splashy model launches and far more likely to survive contact with finance. The industry keeps selling magic; the winners will usually be the ones selling plumbing that doesn’t melt.
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