Doesn't Amazon have a huge lead just because of AWS? Every other player is scrambling for hardware/electricity while Amazon has been building out data centers for the last 20 years.

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dragonwriter 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

> Doesn't Amazon have a huge lead just because of AWS?

They have huge exposure because of AWS; if the way people use computing shifts, and AWS isn't well-configured for AI workloads, then AWS has a lot to lose.

> Every other player is scrambling for hardware/electricity while Amazon has been building out data centers for the last 20 years.

Microsoft and Google have also been building out data centers for quite a while, but also haven't sat out the AI talent wars the way Amazon has.

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deanCommie 6 days ago | parent [-]

> AWS isn't well-configured for AI workloads

What does that mean? Not enough GPUs?

	▲	JCM9 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		A few things, including: 1. Price-performance has struggled to stay competitive. There’s some supply-demand forces at play, but the top companies consistently seem to strike better deals elsewhere. 2. The way AWS is architected, especially on networking, isn’t ideal for AI. They’ve dug their heels on in their own networking protocols despite struggling to compete on performance. I personally know of several workloads that left AWS because they couldn’t compete on networking performance. 3. Struggling on the managed side. On paper a service like Bedrock should be great but in practice it’s been a hot mess. I’d love to use Anthropic via Bedrock, but it’s just much more reliable when going direct. AWS has never been great at these sort of managed services at scale and they’re again struggling here.

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JCM9 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

In theory they should, but it’s increasingly looking like they’re struggling to attract/retain the right talent to take advantage of that position. On paper they should be wiping the floor with others in this space. In practice they’re getting their *ss kicked and in a panic on what to do.

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dataking 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

My understanding is that they fell behind on offering the latest gen Nvidia hardware (Blackwell/Blackwell Ultra) due to their focus on internally developed ASICs (Trainium/Inferentia gen 2).