Nvidia could be primed to be the next AWS

Nvidia and Amazon Web Services, the lucrative cloud arm of Amazon, have a surprising amount in common. For starters, their core businesses emerged from a happy accident. For AWS, it was realizing that it could sell the internal services — storage, compute and memory — that it had created for itself in-house. For Nvidia, it … Read more

Amazon’s Cloud Boss Likens Generative AI Hype to the Dotcom Bubble

As CEO of Amazon’s dominant cloud computing platform AWS, Adam Selipsky is one of the most powerful people in computing at a time when the industry is racing to adopt generative artificial intelligence. Although a fan of the technology, he also has a warning for anyone trying to make sense of the moment: Some AI … Read more

AWS Q4 earnings report 2023

Amazon said on Thursday that its cloud division grew revenue 13% year over year in the fourth quarter, exactly in line with analysts’ projections. The company pointed to growing traction in cloud services for artificial intelligence. Many large technology companies have worked quickly to release new products or update existing ones to capitalize on corporate … Read more

Nvidia’s CEO Was the Man of This Year, Next Year, and the One After That

Jensen Huang was BFFs with everyone in Silicon Valley this year, becoming the only person to walk across all three conference stages of Microsoft, Amazon, and Google. Why? Because everyone needs his GPUs to power their AI dreams. Top 5 Shopping Tips for Amazon Prime Day Graphics Processing Units were once only coveted by PC … Read more

Amazon loses second AWS India and South Asia top exec in less than a year

Vaishali Kasture, the executive Amazon appointed as the interim head of AWS India and South Asia, has quit the firm, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, merely seven months into the top role. Amazon didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment by email and phone. Amazon counts India as one of its … Read more

AWS re:Invent: Everything Amazon’s announced, from new AI tools to LLM updates and more

Amazon’s big AWS cloud event has begun, with a clear focus on the use of AI to keep its lead intact Amazon Web Services took to Las Vegas for its AWS re:Invent event, which kicked off November 27 and runs until December 1. Amazon delivered a rapid-fire series of announcements and unveilings of recent things … Read more

Here’s everything Amazon Web Services has announced at AWS re:Invent so far

Amazon Web Services kicks off its AWS re:Invent event today from Las Vegas with a rapid-fire stream of announcements, including many unveilings of recent things it’s been working on.  We know you don’t always have time to watch the whole keynote today, so we’re taking that on and will deliver quick hits of the biggest … Read more

AWS brings Amazon One palm-scanning authentication to the enterprise

Amazon’s cloud computing subsidiary AWS (Amazon Web Services) has lifted the lid on a new palm-scanning identity service that allows companies to authenticate people when entering physical premises. The announcement comes as part of AWS’s annual Re:Invent conference, which is running in Las Vegas for the duration of this week. Amazon One Enterprise, as the … Read more

AWS’ transcription platform is now powered by generative AI

AWS added new languages to its Amazon Transcribe product, offering generative AI-based transcription for 100 languages and a slew of new AI capabilities for customers.  Announced during the AWS re: Invent event, Amazon Transcribe can now recognize more spoken languages and spin up a call transcription. AWS customers use Transcribe to add speech-to-text capabilities to … Read more