Buy external GPUs
Self-supply custom silicon
How self-supplying custom silicon turns AWS capex into a margin advantage
AI workload demand
Capacity decision
buy or build
Buy Nvidia GPUs
Supplier margin retained
Margin advantage
not captured
Self-supply custom silicon
Trainium
Graviton
Nitro
Remove supplier margin
Lower inference cost
Operating-margin advantage
Monetizes vs committed demand
returns accrue over years of deployment