Amazon announced a brand new product Tuesday referred to as “AI Factories” that enables huge companies and governments to run its AI techniques in their very own knowledge facilities. Or as AWS places it: prospects provide the facility and the information heart, and AWS plunks within the AI system, manages it, and might tie it into different AWS cloud providers.
The thought is to cater to firms and governments involved with knowledge sovereignty, or absolute management over their knowledge so it may well’t wind up in a competitor’s or international adversary’s palms. An on-prem AI Manufacturing facility means not sending their knowledge to a mannequin maker, and never even sharing the {hardware}.
If that product title sounds acquainted, it ought to. That’s what Nvidia calls its {hardware} techniques which can be chock stuffed with instruments wanted to run AI, from its GPU chips to its networking tech. This AWS AI Manufacturing facility is, in reality, a collaboration with Nvidia, both companies say.
On this case, the AWS Manufacturing facility will use a mixture of AWS and Nvidia know-how. Corporations that deploy these techniques can go for Nvidia’s newest Blackwell GPUs or Amazon’s new Trainium3 chip. It makes use of AWS’ homegrown networking, storage, databases and safety and might faucet into Amazon Bedrock — the AI mannequin choice and administration service, and AWS SageMaker AI, the mannequin constructing and coaching device.
Apparently, AWS is much from the one big cloud supplier putting in Nvidia AI Factories. In October, Microsoft confirmed off its first of many-to-come AI Factories rolling out into its world knowledge facilities to run OpenAI workloads. Microsoft didn’t announce on the time that these excessive machines can be obtainable for personal clouds. As a substitute, Microsoft highlighted the way it was leaning on a bunch of Nvidia AI Manufacturing facility knowledge heart tech to construct and join its new “AI Superfactories,” aka new state-of-the-art data centers being built in Wisconsin and Georgia.
Final month, Microsoft also outlined the data centers and cloud services that will be inbuilt native nations to handle the information sovereignty subject. To be honest, its choices additionally embrace “Azure Native,” Microsoft’s personal managed {hardware} that might be put in on buyer websites.
Nonetheless, it’s a bit ironic that AI is inflicting the largest cloud suppliers to take a position so closely in company personal knowledge facilities and hybrid clouds prefer it’s 2009 over again.
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