Superblocks and AWS announced a partnership on August 3, 2026, to help companies build AI-powered apps inside their own private cloud environments. The multi-year agreement lets Superblocks' platform run within AWS customer accounts, connecting to Amazon's AI service called Bedrock for the actual AI processing. Amazon Press Release

The standout feature: when Superblocks apps run on AWS, they create databases inside the customer's own private cloud. Data never gets sent outside to other companies' servers. Co-founder and CEO Brad Menezes said data stays within the customer's private cloud, protected by the same security the customer already uses for their AWS account. Think of it like hiring a contractor who comes to work in your own office rather than taking your files back to theirs. TechCrunch

Superblocks calls its approach "governed enterprise vibe coding" — meaning business teams can build real working apps using AI, while a company's IT and security teams stay in control. The platform checks for unsafe code before publishing, produces clean code that can be exported, keeps data in the customer's own cloud, and makes every app searchable. Superblocks is listed on the AWS Marketplace and is also offered through AWS Activate, a program that supports startups. Superblocks

AWS does not yet have its own tool that lets non-technical staff build apps by describing what they want in plain language. AWS has Kiro, an AI coding tool aimed at professional developers. Amazon also has Quick, a general AI assistant for business users. The Superblocks partnership fills the space between those two — a tool for business people who are not developers but want to create real applications. TechCrunch

Superblocks is based in New York, has 50 employees, and has raised $60 million in total funding as of its Series A round in May 2025. Investors include Spark Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Meritech Capital, and Greenoaks. Yahoo Finance

One Superblocks customer, Flex, gave every employee access to advanced AI coding tools company-wide in February 2026. Superblocks

The broader context here is that companies buying AI tools increasingly care about two things: keeping their data under their own control, and not getting stuck with just one AI provider. Open AI models accounted for 29% of all traffic through Vercel's AI gateway in the month before the announcement. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has publicly urged enterprise customers to use multiple AI models to cut costs and avoid being locked into one vendor. The Superblocks-AWS deal addresses both concerns — data stays in the customer's own cloud, and Bedrock provides access to several AI model providers through a single connection.

For AWS, the partnership brings AI app-building for business users into its lineup, a category the company does not cover with its own tools today. For Superblocks, running inside AWS accounts rather than as an outside service removes the biggest objection security teams raise about AI app builders: that company data has to pass through someone else's systems.

The deal is a marketing agreement, not a purchase or an exclusive technology partnership. AWS customers do not have to use Superblocks, and because Superblocks relies on AWS for the AI processing, AWS controls the pricing of those AI models. Whether Superblocks can keep its advantage if AWS eventually builds or buys its own version of this kind of tool is a question the agreement does not answer.

What the collaboration does enable, for now, is a way for companies to let non-technical teams build real AI applications using sensitive data without that data leaving their own systems. That is a real gap in the market today, and the Superblocks-AWS pairing fills it with technology that security teams already know how to manage.