Amazon Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/amazon/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:39:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.nextplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-PlatformStack-150x150.jpg Amazon Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/amazon/ 32 32 86113652 Amazon Will Spend Nearly A Year Of AWS Revenue On AI Investments https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/07/amazon-will-spend-nearly-a-year-of-aws-revenue-on-ai-investments/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/07/amazon-will-spend-nearly-a-year-of-aws-revenue-on-ai-investments/#comments Fri, 07 Feb 2025 18:02:52 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145278 There is a bit of AI spending one-upmanship going on among the hyperscalers and cloud builders – and now the foundation model builders who are partnering with their new sugar daddies to be able to afford to build vast AI accelerator estates to push the state of the art in model capabilities and intelligence.

Amazon Will Spend Nearly A Year Of AWS Revenue On AI Investments was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Anthropic And OpenAI Show Why Musk Should Build A Cloud https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/25/anthropic-and-openai-show-why-musk-should-build-a-cloud/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/25/anthropic-and-openai-show-why-musk-should-build-a-cloud/#comments Mon, 25 Nov 2024 16:18:27 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145050 If Amazon is going to make you pay for the custom AI advantage that it wants to build over rivals Google and Microsoft, then it needs to have the best models possible running on its homegrown accelerators.

Anthropic And OpenAI Show Why Musk Should Build A Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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You Are Paying The Clouds To Build Better AI Than They Will Rent You https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/05/you-are-paying-the-clouds-to-build-better-ai-than-they-will-rent-you/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/05/you-are-paying-the-clouds-to-build-better-ai-than-they-will-rent-you/#comments Tue, 05 Nov 2024 16:36:52 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144945 Think of it as the ultimate offload model.

One of the geniuses of the cloud – perhaps the central genius – is that a big company that would have a large IT budget, perhaps on the order of hundreds of millions of dollars per year, and that has a certain amount of expertise creates a much, much larger IT organization with billions of dollars – and with AI now tens of billions of dollars – in investments and rents out the vast majority of that capacity to third parties, who essentially allow that original cloud builder to get their own IT operations for close to free.

You Are Paying The Clouds To Build Better AI Than They Will Rent You was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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The Sugar Daddy Boomerang Effect: How AI Investments Puff Up The Clouds https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/12/the-sugar-daddy-boomerang-effect-how-ai-investments-puff-up-the-clouds/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/12/the-sugar-daddy-boomerang-effect-how-ai-investments-puff-up-the-clouds/#comments Mon, 12 Aug 2024 18:30:52 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144511 Here’s a question for you: How much of the growth in cloud spending at Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud in the second quarter came from OpenAI and Anthropic spending money they got as investments out of the treasure chests of Microsoft, Amazon, and Google?

The Sugar Daddy Boomerang Effect: How AI Investments Puff Up The Clouds was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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AI Accelerates Cloud Revenues As Well As Cloud Investments https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/06/ai-accelerates-cloud-revenues-as-well-as-cloud-investments/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/06/ai-accelerates-cloud-revenues-as-well-as-cloud-investments/#comments Mon, 06 May 2024 17:16:34 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144107 Three years ago, thanks in part to competitive pressures as Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and others started giving Amazon Web Services a run for the cloud money, the growth rate in quarterly spending on cloud services was slowing.

AI Accelerates Cloud Revenues As Well As Cloud Investments was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Mixed Results For The Datacenter Thundering Thirteen In Q4 https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/08/mixed-results-for-the-datacenter-thundering-thirteen-in-q4/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/08/mixed-results-for-the-datacenter-thundering-thirteen-in-q4/#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2024 23:39:08 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143929 We have been tracking the financial results for the big players in the datacenter that are public companies for three and a half decades, but starting last year we started dicing and slicing the numbers for the largest IT suppliers for stuff that goes into datacenters so we can give you a better sense what is and what is not happening out there.

Mixed Results For The Datacenter Thundering Thirteen In Q4 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Amazon Gives Anthropic $2.75 Billion So It Can Spend It On AWS XPUs https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/27/amazon-gives-anthropic-2-75-billion-so-it-can-spend-it-on-aws-gpus/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/27/amazon-gives-anthropic-2-75-billion-so-it-can-spend-it-on-aws-gpus/#respond Thu, 28 Mar 2024 02:37:34 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143874 If Microsoft has the half of OpenAI that didn’t leave, then Amazon and its Amazon Web Services cloud division needs the half of OpenAI that did leave – meaning Anthropic.

Amazon Gives Anthropic $2.75 Billion So It Can Spend It On AWS XPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Hyperscalers Bringing Nvidia’s Grace-Blackwell Superchip To Their Clouds https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/21/hyperscalers-bringing-nvidias-grace-blackwell-superchip-to-their-clouds/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/21/hyperscalers-bringing-nvidias-grace-blackwell-superchip-to-their-clouds/#comments Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:01:10 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143855 At his company’s GTC 2024 Technical Conference this week, Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang, unveiled the chip maker’s massive Blackwell GPUs and accompanying NVLink networking systems, promising a future where hyperscale cloud providers, HPC centers, and other organizations of size and means can meet the rapidly increasing compute demands driven by the emergence of generative AI.

Hyperscalers Bringing Nvidia’s Grace-Blackwell Superchip To Their Clouds was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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How AWS Can Undercut Nvidia With Homegrown AI Compute Engines https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/12/04/how-aws-can-undercut-nvidia-with-homegrown-ai-compute-engines/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/12/04/how-aws-can-undercut-nvidia-with-homegrown-ai-compute-engines/#comments Mon, 04 Dec 2023 16:53:56 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143339 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.

How AWS Can Undercut Nvidia With Homegrown AI Compute Engines was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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The On-Premises Empire Strikes Back At AWS https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/02/06/the-on-premises-empire-strikes-back-at-aws/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/02/06/the-on-premises-empire-strikes-back-at-aws/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2023 18:20:37 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=141877 Anybody who can read a financial report knows they are paying too much for compute, storage, networking, and software at Amazon Web Services.

The On-Premises Empire Strikes Back At AWS was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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