Amazon Web Services may not be the first of the hyperscalers and cloud builders to create its own custom compute engines, but it has been hot on the heels of Google, which started using its homegrown TPU accelerators for AI workloads in 2015. …
Anybody who can read a financial report knows they are paying too much for compute, storage, networking, and software at Amazon Web Services. …
The advent of the Data Processing Unit or the I/O Processing Unit, or whatever you want to call it, was driven as much by economics as it was by architectural necessity. …
In recent years, when the economy became unstable, enterprises tended to look to the cloud as a safe haven. …
Amazon Web Services is not the largest IT supplier in the world, but it is well on its way to attaining that position as it has notched up another quarter of growth in what is a tough economic climate. …
What company has the lowest IT spending budget in the world, but has also paradoxically spent more money than any company in history investing in creating a new, modern, cloud-native system that is capable of running just about any application at just about any necessary scale? …
The Graviton family of Arm server chips designed by the Annapurna Labs division of Amazon Web Services is arguably the highest volume Arm server chips the datacenter market today, and they have precisely one – and only one – customer. …
These are still early days for quantum computing, far too soon to talk about domain-specific quantum systems. …
What is the difference between a row of servers at one of the 80 availability zones in 25 geographic regions run by Amazon Web Services and a printing press at one of the four facilities run by the US Mint? …
While the interface has changed little over time, Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) is anything but basic on the backend. …
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