Amazon counts on 'grit and innovation' to meet AI surge
To satisfy their generative AI urge, firms need to secure state-of-the-art software and ramp up computing power, which quickly brings them knocking on the doors of the globe's cloud computing giants, of which Amazon's AWS is the biggest.
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Offering CollegeCourseWebsiteIndian School of BusinessProfessional Certificate in Product ManagementVisitIndian School of BusinessISB Product ManagementVisitMIT xPROMIT Technology Leadership and InnovationVisitAmazon's computing arsenal is housed in data centers scattered across the globe, and Prasad Kalyanaraman, Vice President for AWS Infrastructure, is the man in charge of keeping them running.
Amazon's AWS data centers are spread across dozens of regions, serving as a kind of engine room to the online world, with Microsoft and Google as the company's closest rivals.
And with the generative AI revolution entering hyperdrive, it is up to Kalyanaraman to make sure the data center battalions are ready for the challenge.
«It takes a significant amount of grit and innovation» to meet the need for computing right now, Kalyanaraman told AFP during an interview at Amazon's second headquarters near Washington.
«Building the right technology, both in terms of consuming the least amount of power needed, and optimizing all the way from the chip level to the data center level… requires a lot of innovation,» he said.
Kalyanaraman, a graduate of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology and Queen's University in Canada, has
