Amazon Cloud Injected with AI Steroids
January 17, 2018
Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are huge cloud computing rivals. Amazon wants to keep up with the competition, says Fortune, in the article, “Amazon Reportedly Beefing Up Cloud Capabilities In The Cloud.” Amazon is “beefing up” its cloud performance by injecting it with more machine learning and artificial intelligence. The world’s biggest retailer is doing this by teaming up with AI-based startups Domino Data Lab and DataRobot.
Cloud computing is mostly used by individuals as computer backups and the ability to access their files from anywhere. Businesses use it to run their applications and store data, but as cloud computing becomes more standard they want to run machine learning tasks and big data analysis.
Amazon’s new effort is code-named Ironman and is aimed at completing tasks for companies focused on insurance, energy, fraud detection, and drug discovery, The Information reported. The services will be offered to run on graphic processing chips made by Nvidia as well as so-called field programmable gate array chips, which can be reprogrammed as needed for different kinds of software.
Nvidia and other high-performing chip manufacturers such as Advanced Micro Devices and Intel are ecstatic about the competition because it means more cloud operators will purchase their products. Amazon Web Services is one of the company’s fastest growing areas and continues to bring in the profits.
Whitney Grace, January 17, 2018
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