Rackspace Technology and AMD Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Establish New Category of Governed Enterprise AI Infrastructure

Rackspace Technology and AMD signed a memorandum of understanding to outline a multiyear strategic partnership aimed at building a governed Enterprise AI Cloud for regulated and sovereign workloads. The companies said the framework centers on security, governance, and accountability as requirements.

Rackspace and AMD described a shift from enterprises renting GPU capacity by the hour while handling integration, security, and accountability themselves. Under the MOU framework, the companies planned to integrate AMD Instinct GPUs and AMD EPYC CPUs into a fully managed, governed stack, with Rackspace owning the stack from silicon to outcomes.

Rackspace would assemble, integrate, and operate a private and hybrid environment built on AMD Instinct GPUs and AMD EPYC CPUs as part of the Enterprise AI Cloud. The collaboration also covered an enterprise inference engine described as context-aware and retaining domain knowledge, session history, and enterprise-specific data context across queries, with Rackspace owning an SLA covering availability, scaling, and performance.

The companies also outlined three additional capabilities: inference as a service using dedicated, managed AMD Instinct GPUs with developer-ready inferencing and fine-tuning toolkits, bare metal AMD Instinct compute for customers needing physical isolation and direct hardware access, and an inference runtime and tooling path that runs from bare metal compute through production operations for a governed Enterprise AI Cloud. “Governing AI infrastructure in regulated environments with defined accountability is not something you bolt on after the fact. It must be built in from the start. Rackspace and AMD are building exactly that and in doing so, establishing a new category of enterprise AI infrastructure that the market has been asking for,” said Gajen Kandiah, CEO, Rackspace Technology.

“Our collaboration with Rackspace delivers AMD AI compute into managed, private and governed environments so enterprises can deploy AI with the performance and flexibility their workloads demand,” said Dan McNamara, senior vice president and general manager, Compute & Enterprise AI, AMD. The companies said the MOU is a framework for potential collaboration and does not constitute a binding commitment to complete any specific transaction.