Faced with an increasingly complex external environment and various unexpected "black swan" events, enterprises urgently need faster, more efficient, more flexible, and cost-effective solutions to deal with various challenges encountered in digital transformation through continuous digital innovation.
In this process, cloud services are playing a vital role.
"Cloud service is a key productivity that supports digital innovation. Amazon Cloud Technology has been focusing on the continuous innovation of infrastructure services to empower user business development. Whether it is the explosion of demand for computing power resources brought about by the wave of AI innovation, or the general "globalization" demand under the new pattern of Chinese enterprises' innovation going overseas, Amazon Cloud Technology can provide assistance to enterprises." Chen Xiaojian, general manager of Amazon Cloud Technology Greater China Product Department, said.
The demand for computing power blows out, and Amazon Cloud Technology plays a combined punch
With the development of emerging technologies such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence, the demand for computing power of enterprises is showing a blowout trend. In order to better meet the rapidly growing demands of enterprises for computing power, what measures has Amazon Cloud Technology taken?
"Three characteristics of the blowout demand for computing power: first, more cost-effective software and hardware solutions are needed to cope with the shortage of computing resources; second, cloud services need to provide fast and efficient elastic resource supply to cope with the rapid development of generative AI and rapidly changing business needs; third, cloud services need to further lower the threshold of use, so that customers can quickly get started." Chen Xiaojian said.
Chen Xiaojian pointed out that in the face of the challenges brought about by the blowout demand for computing power, Amazon Cloud Technology provides better cost performance through self-developed chips, and responds to sudden computing power demands through a variety of rich computing, network, storage and other product combinations. Serverless effectively reduces the complexity of operation and maintenance, thereby simplifying the use of computing power, and fully meeting users' diverse computing power needs with higher cost performance.
On the one hand, in response to the shortage of computing power, Amazon Cloud Technology provides comprehensive and in-depth infrastructure capabilities, including Intel, AMD, Nvidia, and self-developed CPU and acceleration chip products. Among them, Nitro is the first self-developed chip product of Amazon Cloud Technology. The fifth-generation Nitro launched last year has improved the performance per watt by 40%; the ARM-based general-purpose processor Graviton 3 has a 25% increase in computing performance compared with the previous generation product, double the floating-point performance, and up to 2 times faster encryption workload performance. The vector calculation performance of the fourth-generation product Gravtion3E has increased by 35%.
On the other hand, for elastic resource supply, Amazon Cloud Technology provides more than 600 different computing instances, including processors, networks, storage and other services, which can be well combined with computing, so that users can quickly build rich and flexible computing instance resources like building blocks to meet the requirements of various computing power.
It is worth mentioning that, in order to simplify the application of computing power, Amazon Cloud Technology is still exploring how to maximize the elasticity, agility, and pay-as-you-go characteristics of the cloud, and gradually promote cloud services to fully move towards serverless. Today, Amazon Cloud Technology has realized serverless full-stack data services, opening the era of fully serverless cloud services. Users can run almost any type of application or back-end service code without provisioning or managing infrastructure, minimize operation and maintenance work, increase business agility, and better cope with various business uncertainties.
Helping enterprises go overseas, the global layout of Amazon cloud technology
In recent years, more and more Chinese enterprises have chosen to set sail to develop business and layout for the global market, which naturally puts forward more stringent requirements on the IT structure of enterprises.
Chen Xiaojian pointed out that for enterprises that want to go overseas, Amazon Cloud Technology can provide a variety of product solutions from the center to the edge, including a global infrastructure, the ability to quickly deploy stable systems, and comprehensive support for business compliance in various countries and regions around the world. All of the above can become the cornerstone of the enterprise to create a solid underlying architecture.
1. Ubiquitous cloud services: So far, Amazon Cloud Technology has 99 availability zones in 31 regions around the world, covering 245 countries and regions. The highly secure and reliable cloud infrastructure it provides enables innovation to reach every corner quickly, provides customers with the computing power to support business innovation, and can well support customers' global layout strategies, allowing customers to use consistent infrastructure, services, APIs and tools anytime and anywhere.
2. The ability to quickly deploy a reliable system: In theory, all functional modules may fail. Although Amazon Cloud Technology cannot completely avoid failures, it can minimize risks as much as possible through various efforts such as regional isolation, multi-availability zone design, control plane and data plane decoupling, cellular architecture, random sharding, service responsibility model, operational readiness review, security continuous deployment, and COE error correction process.
3. Support business compliance capabilities in various countries and regions around the world: Amazon Cloud Technology supports 143 security standards and compliance certifications, and has more than 300 security compliance services, which can meet the compliance requirements of almost all regulatory agencies around the world, thus helping customers from all walks of life to more easily and quickly build structures that meet security and compliance requirements around the world.
"Amazon Cloud Technology's cutting-edge exploration of cloud computing technology is providing productivity for all walks of life and various types of customers around the world to accelerate digital transformation and innovation. Compared with other cloud service providers, Amazon Cloud Technology provides more extensive, comprehensive, and in-depth services and functions, and has more than 200 services ranging from computing, storage, networking to artificial intelligence, machine learning, and quantum technology. Therefore, it can provide users with all-round support anytime, anywhere, and help customers innovate faster and more efficiently." Chen Xiaojian said.
Excavating and cultivating talents, DeepRacer competition continues to break the circle
The continuous rapid development of artificial intelligence in recent years has caused a huge gap in its talent supply. Statistics show that the current talent gap in the field of artificial intelligence in China alone is as high as 5 million, which also makes many employers anxious.
In order to solve the problem of shortage of talents and stimulate more people's enthusiasm for learning artificial intelligence technology, Amazon Cloud Technology has launched a series of Amazon DeepRacer events for developers, teenagers, college students and other groups. As a fully automatic driving car driven by reinforcement learning and 3D racing simulators, Amazon DeepRacer, on the one hand, significantly lowers the learning threshold of artificial intelligence, allowing people with zero foundation to get started easily;
At the exhibition area of the 2023 Amazon Cloud Technology China Summit, many guests witnessed the wonderful duels of multiple Amazon DeepRacer events. During the two-day competition, Amazon Cloud Technology held a series of events such as "Amazon DeepRacer Enterprise Summit Finals", "Girls in Tech" Promotion Competition, and University Challenge for enterprises and developers, teenagers and college students, which not only provided a platform for participants from all circles to hone their skills and communicate with each other, but also allowed the participants to experience the great charm of artificial intelligence and machine learning from a distance.
"The development of the digital economy is inseparable from the drive of professional digital skilled talents. According to a survey report commissioned by Amazon Cloud Technology and conducted by Gallup, an international survey organization, 85% of the interviewed companies said that digital skilled talents will be very or extremely important to business development in the next five years. Therefore, accelerating the cultivation of high-level digital skilled talents is an inevitable requirement for the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy. Amazon Cloud Technology has always been committed to helping local talents. It hopes that with the help of Amazon DeepRacer, a unique learning tool, it will stimulate more people's interest in artificial intelligence and machine learning, and help the cultivation of digital skilled talents at all stages. In the future, we will continue to cultivate local cloud computing talents to empower the development of the digital economy and industrial transformation and upgrading." Gu Fan, General Manager of the Strategic Business Development Department of Amazon Cloud Technology Greater China, said.
