AWS brings easy AI app development to companies | Digital Trends

August 15, 2023August 14, 2023 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

The future of artificial intelligence is quickly being made into an out-of-box experience that companies can customize based on their specific needs. Optimized chat experiences that are functional far beyond question-and-answer and tools to create AI applications without months of coding development could be the next step outside of introducing new plugins and extensions.

More commonplace tools, such as ChatGPT for information and Midjourney for images rely on public data and consistent developer coding to create an end product. Meanwhile, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is committed to making generative AI that is not only more productive and easier to navigate but also data unique and data secure to the companies that deploy its tools.

AWS Launches $100M Generative AI Innovation Center | Small Biz Trends

June 28, 2023June 27, 2023 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), the cloud computing subsidiary of Amazon, has announced its significant investment in the development of generative artificial intelligence (AI). With a $100 million commitment, the new AWS Generative AI Innovation Center aims to support customers and partners globally in their quest to harness the potential of generative AI. This move, with its direct engagement approach, could open up fresh opportunities for small business owners to innovate and leverage AI technology.

Generative AI, a type of machine learning (ML) that can create new data instances like images, sound, and text, can prove transformative across industries. The AWS Generative AI Innovation Center seeks to leverage this capability, assisting businesses in envisioning, designing, and launching new generative AI products, services, and processes. This initiative builds on AWS’s longstanding commitment to AI technology development, and its goal to bring this technology to customers and partners worldwide.

AWS takes a hit in latest round of Amazon layoffs | TechCrunch

March 21, 2023March 20, 2023 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

When Amazon announced it was laying off another 9,000 employees today, AWS employees were not exempt with Amazon CEO (and former AWS CEO) Andy Jassy announcing the cloud division would be included into today’s round.

TechCrunch is hearing that around 10% of today’s total came from AWS. The company would not confirm those numbers, instead referring to Jassy’s memo to employees that was published this morning as the gist of its statement.

Here’s everything AWS will announce today | TechCrunch

December 1, 2016 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

Amazon is hosting the second of two major keynotes at its re:Invent developer conference in Las Vegas today. TechCrunch has received detailed notes on the contents of today’s keynote, which will be delivered by Amazon CTO, Werner Vogels. We already knew he was going to talk about DevOps and containers today, but here are a few more details of what to expect. The keynote is scheduled to start at 8:30am PT.

AWS Personal Health Dashboard

AWS Personal Health Dashboard will give developers data on the health of the infrastructure that is running their applications. This is the kind of operational data that companies are used to having on their applications — and should make DevOps teams feel a lot more comfortable using AWS to launch their cloud applications.

Apple looks to Google’s Cloud Platform as it diversifies its infrastructure | TechCrunch

March 17, 2016 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

Rumors are flying today that Apple is moving part of its cloud business from AWS to Google’s Cloud Platform. We did some asking around and yes, it does appear that Apple has made some moves to diversify its iCloud storage, tapping Google for some of that business.

This is another huge win for Google and a — at the very least perceived — loss of ground for AWS, which has watched as Dropbox moved large parts of its US storage business in-house and Spotify moved at least part of its business to Google, too.