Verizon to supply AWS with dark fibre infrastructure

Verizon recently announced that the company has entered into an agreement worth more than $2 billion with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to supply dark fibre infrastructure to meet AI workload demand. The operator noted the AWS agreement “establishes a commercial framework to scale distributed compute and meet the real-time demands of agentic and generative AI workloads”. It builds on an existing strategic partnership between the two and mirrors a dark fibre deal with Google announced earlier this ye