AWS offers AI-in-a-box for enterprise datacenters

re:invent Many businesses and government agencies require that all sensitive data stay on-premises for legal or security reasons. If those orgs want to work with AI, they can't rely on regular public clouds, but now they can let AWS build and manage AI hardware and software in their datacenters.

Announced Tuesday at the company's re:Invent conference, AWS AI Factories is a fully managed solution where enterprises provide the datacenter and power while the house of Bezos installs its hardware and software under their roof. They operate like a private AWS Region, using customers' existing datacenter space, power, and network links while AWS brings in and manages its own racks of infrastructure, including compute, storage, database, and AI services, all running locally. Customers will not need to worry about acquiring hardware, installing it, or buying or building software platforms for their AI models. All they need is ...