Amazon’s next wave of machine learning: Powerful, practical
At AWS Re:Invent 2016 today, Amazon rolled out new machine learning offerings — both to keep ahead of furiously evolving competition and to provide tools that range from simple, high-level services to expert-level products. Hardware for the hardcore No Amazon announcement day would be complete without new AWS EC2 features. One of today’s machine-learning related announcements, Elastic GPUs, allows GPUs to be attached to one of eight existing EC2 instance types, as opposed to forcing the user to pick from a smaller range of EC2 instances pre-equipped with GPUs. It’s hard not to see this as a direct slap at Google’s recent moves. Earlier in November, Google offered GPU instances for the first time on its cloud, allowing up to eight GPUs to be attached to an existing system. Whatever the motive,…
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