Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud companies chief says the corporate is aggressively increasing server farms globally and trying to enhance entry to the newest synthetic intelligence chips from Nvidia Corp.
Amazon Internet Companies, the world’s largest vendor of rented computing energy and knowledge storage, opened a cluster of information facilities in Mexico earlier this yr, AWS Chief Government Officer Matt Garman mentioned Friday in an interview with Bloomberg Tv. The cloud division can be constructing out new amenities in Chile, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia and Taiwan, Garman mentioned.
Amazon has mentioned that its AI franchise is on tempo to usher in a number of billions of {dollars} over the course of a full yr. Garman mentioned Friday that the determine “is AWS” and represents buyer use of its on-demand AI companies.
Like rivals Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Amazon is racing to spice up its capability to energy synthetic intelligence duties. Garman mentioned it was working with Nvidia to develop its inventory of the main AI chipmaker’s newest GB200 semiconductors, which can be found for AWS clients to check.
“Demand is powerful,” he mentioned.
A longtime AWS engineering chief and later gross sales chief, Garman took the highest job at AWS a yr in the past, changing Adam Selipsky.
Garman mentioned he’d welcome the prospect to host OpenAI’s fashions on AWS. The AI startup’s fashions are powered by Microsoft servers, however OpenAI earlier this yr gained permission to discover different partnerships if Microsoft doesn’t need the enterprise itself.
“We encourage all of our companions to have the ability to be accessible elsewhere,” Garman mentioned. “I’d love for others to take that very same tack.”
He mentioned it might be “OK, too,” if Claude — the AI mannequin constructed by Amazon companion Anthropic — wound up on Microsoft’s cloud computing platform.
“It’s nice that Claude’s making their companies accessible elsewhere, and we see the overwhelming majority of that utilization occurring in AWS although,” Garman mentioned.