Amazon is testing out private on-premises 'AI Factories'

• AWS AI Factories put Amazon/Nvidia hardware in customers’ own facilities
• They’re designed to respond to strict data sovereignty/privacy requirements
• A return to on-prem has gained traction in an AI-driven era

Amazon Web Services has revealed more information about its AI Factories – full-stack AI infrastructure that sits inside a customer’s own data center.

This means customers would provide the facility and the power, with Amazon’s cloud division providing and managing AI systems, in a way likening AI Factories to a private AWS region.

Besides giving organizations more control against data sovereignty, security, or regulatory requirements, it also ensures they have access to hardware options, such as Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs or Amazon’s Trainium3 accelerators.