AWS announces new AI Factories to reduce infrastructure barriers for public, private sector

LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services and NVIDIA are combining forces to create specialized artificial intelligence “factories” for their customers looking to access advanced computational resources without building their own expensive infrastructure. 

Announced on Tuesday at the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, the AWS AI Factories look to reduce the infrastructure burden for public and private sector customers that want to run advanced AI calculations, but lack the necessary components of the AI tech stack, like data storage or supercomputing chips. 

“As governments and large organizations seek to scale AI projects, some are turning to the concept of an ‘AI factory’ to address their unique sovereignty and compliance needs,” the press release announcing the partnership says. “AWS AI Factories combine the latest AI accelerators including cutting-edge NVIDIA AI computing and Trainium chips, AWS high-speed, low-latency networking, high-performance storage and databases, security, and energy-efficient infrastructure together with comprehensive AI services ...