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On September 25, 2026, the Supreme Court allowed states to resume using the Trump administration’s expanded SAVE tool, which checks the citizenship of registered voters against federal records. The tool has already flagged tens of thousands of voters as potential noncitizens, and evidence from Texas suggests that a meaningful share of them are in fact citizens, creating the likelihood of disenfranchisement.
Far less attention has gone to the company whose infrastructure makes the system run. SAVE is hosted on Amazon data centers, and in June 2026 the Department of Homeland Security deepened its reliance on Amazon Web Services by awarding it the largest share of a department-wide cloud contract worth up to $2.5 billion.
Amazon's role in SAVE is part of a broader relationship with the current administration. Since January 2025, AWS's federal contract awards have climbed sharply, and Amazon has saved billions of dollars under the 2025 tax law, provisions of which it lobbied to shape.
Alongside these gains, Amazon has moved away from the commitment it made after January 6, 2021, to stop funding members of Congress who voted to overturn the 2020 election. Its PAC now regularly gives to those members, including the House Speaker and Majority Leader. Amazon has also become the largest tech-sector donor to the Republican Attorneys General Association, whose affiliated arm promoted the January 6 rally which led to the attack on the Capitol.
This brief examines each of these connections: how Amazon’s data centers provide the AWS infrastructure behind SAVE, Amazon's gains under the current administration, and its political spending since the 2020 election. Together, they show a corporation that powers the administration's efforts to determine who gets to vote, is a growing financial supporter of politicians who have denied election results, and makes billions in the process.
