Microporous AlPO 4 -54•xH 2 O, which exhibits the largest pores among zeolites and aluminophosphates with a diameter of 12.7 Å, was investigated at high pressure by X-ray powder diffraction and Raman spectroscopy in diamond anvil cells. The material was found to begin to amorphize near 2 GPa using either a nonpenetrating pressure transmitting medium (PTM) silicone oil or no PTM. When H 2 O is used as a PTM, amorphization begins at a lower pressure of 0.9 GPa. In this case, superhydration effects are observed and higher relative unit cell volumes are observed prior to the beginning of pressure-induced amorphization (PIA) as compared to the experiment in silicone oil due to insertion of the H 2 O molecules in the pores. In all cases, in these experiments at room temperature, amorphization was irreversible. Ex situ experiments were used to investigate the local structure of pressure-amorphized AlPO 4 -54•xH 2 O by nuclear magnetic resonance and by X-ray absorption spectroscopy, which show that, upon increasing pressure, two water molecules enter in the coordination sphere of IV Al, thereby increasing the coordination number from 4 to 6, which destabilizes the structure. The present results show that the insertion of and/or reaction with guest species can be used to strongly modify the stability of microporous materials with respect to PIA.