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AWS Named a Leader in Forrester Wave for AI Infrastructure Solutions Q4 2025
Key points
- AWS recognized as a Leader in Forrester Wave: AI Infrastructure Solutions, Q4 2025.
- Received highest score in the Strategy category among 13 providers.
- Scored 5.00 in 16 criteria, including architecture, vision, and roadmap.
- Offers AWS Inferentia, Trainium, and NVIDIA GPUs for AI workloads.
Forrester Wave Recognition
AWS has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: AI Infrastructure Solutions, Q4 2025. This report evaluated 13 different providers in the AI infrastructure market. AWS achieved the highest score in the Strategy category within this assessment.
Evaluation Criteria and Strengths
Forrester's evaluation covered criteria across current offering, strategy, and customer feedback. AWS received the highest possible score (5.00) in 16 specific criteria. These included architecture, ecosystem, data management, training, development, management and operations, fault tolerance, efficiency, security, scalability, vision, innovation, roadmap, partner ecosystem, and pricing flexibility and transparency.
The report highlighted AWS's vision to provide both proprietary accelerators (AWS Inferentia and AWS Trainium) and NVIDIA GPUs, offering customers cost-efficient options and avoiding hardware lock-in. Forrester noted that AWS's custom silicon performs well for mainstream tasks, while NVIDIA supports high-end requirements.
Importance of AI Infrastructure
The Forrester evaluation emphasized that effective AI infrastructure must support the entire AI workload lifecycle, from training to inference. Key elements for successful AI infrastructure include workload-specific architecture, engineering efficiency through coordinated design of compute, network, storage, and orchestration, and sustainability and flexibility in power, cooling, and vendor lock-in avoidance.
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Reporting from
AWS has been recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: AI Infrastructure Solutions, Q4 2025, receiving the highest score in the Strategy category. This evaluation assessed 13 providers on current offering, strategy, and customer feedback for AI infrastructure capabilities.