What’s Next with Tech: AWS and OpenAI Set to Rewire Tomorrow's Businesses

SCMP Tech / 5/5/2026

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Key Points

  • OpenAI’s Codex coding assistant has reached more than four million weekly users, highlighting how fast developer-tool competition is accelerating.
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) has integrated Codex and the latest AI models into Amazon Bedrock, positioning AWS to compete in agentic and generative AI workflows.
  • The piece argues that CIOs and CTOs can use these capabilities to capture value from agentic AI in day-to-day business and engineering operations.
  • Overall, the article frames AWS and OpenAI as drivers of near-term change that could “rewire” how tomorrow’s businesses build and deploy software-enabled processes.
[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] More than four million users now access OpenAI’s coding assistant Codex weekly, a recent uptake of one million users in two weeks proving just how quickly the competitive gap in developer tools is widening. Recognising this urgency, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has brought Codex and the latest artificial intelligence (AI) models to Amazon Bedrock. For CIOs and CTOs, this means capturing the fruits of agentic AI within...

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