Warner Bros. Discovery achieves 60% cost savings and faster ML inference with AWS Graviton

This post is written by Nukul Sharma, Machine Learning Engineering Manager, and Karthik Dasani, Staff Machine Learning Engineer, at Warner Bros. Discovery.

Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) is a leading global media and entertainment company that creates and distributes the world’s most differentiated and complete portfolio of content and brands across television, film and streaming. With iconic brands including HBO, Discovery Channel, Warner Bros., CNN, DC Entertainment, and many others, WBD delivers premium storytelling to audiences worldwide through diverse systems and experiences. Our streaming services, including HBO Max and discovery+, represent a cornerstone of our direct-to-consumer strategy, offering viewers unprecedented access to our 200,000+ hours of programming.

In this post, we describe the scale of our offerings, artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) inference infrastructure requirements for our real time recommender systems, and how we used AWS Graviton-based Amazon SageMaker AI instances for our ML inference workloads and ...