At the beginning of the 20th year, the heart did not change,
Building a Growth Flywheel for Startups
[Global Cloud Observation｜Hot Spotlight] 20 years ago, Amazon's current CEO Andy Jassy observed that during the incubation process of Amazon's internal new business, engineers need to spend a lot of time and invest in some infrastructure that is highly repetitive but does not generate added value construction work.
This made Andy realize that if Amazon, the e-commerce giant at that time, was facing such a challenge, let alone thousands of start-ups?
Therefore, Andy led 57 employees to start the entrepreneurial journey of Amazon cloud technology. He hopes to build a set of highly available, scalable and cost-effective infrastructure services within the enterprise, on the one hand, to make Amazon's own business run more efficiently, On the other hand, it can also help start-ups that start in garages or even university dormitories to obtain the same advanced infrastructure and cost advantages as large enterprises to achieve innovative development.
Today, Amazon Cloud Technology, which originally had 57 employees, has become the pioneer of global cloud computing and has been leading the development of the cloud computing industry. It has been widely praised for its continuous innovation, leading technology, rich services, and wide application. The "cloud giant" with a business scale of tens of billions of dollars, and Andy Jassy has also changed from the CEO of Amazon Cloud Technology to the current CEO of Amazon. Times have changed, but the original intention remains unchanged. Amazon Cloud Technology continues to fulfill its original vision: to give all start-ups the opportunity to become tomorrow's "giant".
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"Two-way travel" with over 10,000 start-ups in China
Building a Growth Flywheel for Startups
It is precisely because of growing up in a legendary entrepreneurial story that Amazon Cloud Technology deeply understands the challenges and needs of Chinese start-ups, provides start-ups with all-round and full-cycle resources, and continues to create a start-up growth flywheel:
- Identify the development track
Amazon Cloud Technology has millions of customers around the world, and has always maintained the most cutting-edge observations on various industries. Its extensive partner network of venture capital institutions can help entrepreneurs understand the global entrepreneurial dynamics and position themselves more accurately. track.
- Grinding high-quality products
Amazon cloud technology provides entrepreneurs with more than 200 categories of cloud services, greatly reducing the threshold for them to use new technologies. Amazon Cloud Technology also provides entrepreneurs with free start-up cloud resources, exclusive technical support and cloud architecture consulting through the Yunchuang Program to help them quickly and cost-effectively carry out product prototype verification. In the two years of 2020 and 2021 alone, Amazon cloud technology will provide more than 2 billion US dollars of cloud computing resources for start-ups.
- Help business development
Amazon cloud technology builds a bridge for start-ups to cooperate with large enterprises. We have jointly launched acceleration programs with Volvo, Schneider, NVIDIA, Foxconn, Takeda Pharmaceutical and other large companies to help start-ups win business opportunities from large companies.
- Build an innovative organizational culture
In order to help start-ups in the growth stage, Amazon Cloud Technology combines its innovation culture and organizational management methodology to design a series of enabling solutions for start-ups to help entrepreneurs find suitable methods in a complex and highly competitive market environment. Quick decision.
In China, Amazon Cloud Technology has invested more than RMB 200 million in start-up support resources, helped more than 10,000 start-ups, and launched strategic cooperation with more than 200 venture capital and business incubation institutions. Up to now, start-ups supported by Amazon cloud technology have received more than US$10 billion in market financing. These start-ups are distributed in enterprise services, generative AI, metaverse, blockchain, e-commerce, games, social networking, advanced manufacturing, Intelligent hardware, automotive technology, medical health and other fields.
Through long-term hard work and investment, Amazon Cloud Technology has also gained recognition and affirmation from many start-ups:
Chen Aohan, co-founder and CEO of UINO Technology, commented on the start-up team of Amazon Cloud Technology: "With the support of the start-up team of Amazon Cloud Technology, UINO has established an effective innovation management system using the Amazon Digital Innovation project methodology. The digital products sorted out in this way have been successfully launched and run stably on Amazon cloud technology.”
Cui Yunkai, founder of Gewutai (Shanghai) Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., an AI data management platform provider, mentioned: "Amazon Cloud Technology is a cloud service provider that is very friendly to technology start-ups. By joining the Amazon Cloud Technology Cloud Innovation Program, we are We have obtained very rich resources at the technical and commercial levels, so we can focus more on our core business and efficiently develop overseas markets.”
Ji Benniu, vice president of products of EMQ Yingyun Technology, highly praised the Amazon Cloud Technology Cloud Creation Plan: "Joining the Amazon Cloud Technology Cloud Creation Plan, regardless of the amount of resources used in the early stage, the structure optimization in the mid-term R&D stage, or the technical support after the service is launched later , have been of great help.”
Yan Jing, director and vice president of Callisto (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd., recognized the support of Amazon cloud technology: "With the help of Amazon cloud technology start-up team, automotive industry solution team, partner ecological team, and product expert team, we are based on Amazon Amazon IoT FleetWise, Amazon EMR, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon EKS and other services of Cloud Technology have built an end-to-end automotive network security solution, and together with Deloitte and Amazon Cloud Technology, jointly promote the implementation and scale of the end-to-end VSOC solution Mass production will have a profound impact on the VSOC ecology of the automotive industry."
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Amazon cloud technology empowers start-ups
Find the track and unleash creativity under the wave of AI technology
Recently, the generative AI technology of the big fire has brought about industrial changes and huge opportunities. New tracks have emerged, and the enthusiasm of entrepreneurs has been greatly stimulated.
First of all, at the basic model level, large models such as Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion, AI21 Labs, Hugging Face, and AlexaTM are all built on Amazon cloud technology. What they need is ultra-large-scale, cost-effective computing power.
Secondly, in the field of application, generative AI will greatly change the experience of human-computer interaction, bringing new experiences in entertainment, work, learning and other aspects, such as smarter personal assistants, more realistic interaction with game characters, and more personalized assisted learning. In addition, generative AI will promote the innovation of industry applications. For many large enterprises with rich domain data and application scenarios but lack of technical capabilities, they are also actively looking for start-up companies that can provide AI solutions in specific industry application scenarios to cooperate. For example, in the field of industrial design, AI generates product design drawings, etc.
Finally, generative AI technology, especially the basic large model, is changing the process of enterprise product development and raising the requirements for the security protection of private data of enterprises, which makes there are many entrepreneurial opportunities in the tool chain around the large model, such as data governance , data curation, model distillation and optimization including many opportunities.
The wave of AI has brought great opportunities to entrepreneurs, but also presented new challenges. When faced with endless possibilities, how to eliminate the false and keep the true in the wind, pick the right track, and accelerate commercialization are the difficulties faced by entrepreneurs. Based on years of experience and accumulation in empowering start-ups, Amazon Cloud Technology hopes to help more start-ups benefit from the transformation of AI technology and provide resources and support in all aspects:
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Help start-ups find the right track
Lowering the threshold for using AI technology
Over the past ten years, Amazon Cloud Technology has established high-performance, low-cost, and secure and compliant cloud infrastructure around the world, including self-developed reasoning and training chips, which can provide the most cost-effective computing power and support start-ups to build and Run the base model.
As one of the early entrants to the machine learning and artificial intelligence track, Amazon Cloud Technology has rich experience in serving more than 100,000 customers from various industries and different sizes using machine learning for innovation, and deep and wide artificial intelligence and machine learning Product portfolio, a strong team of scientists, technology and engineering experts, and rich entrepreneurial ecological resources to help start-ups find the right direction in the new track.
In addition, Amazon Cloud Technology is committed to promoting the inclusiveness of generative AI technology so that more start-ups can benefit from it. Recently, Amazon Cloud Technology announced the launch of Amazon Bedrock, which provides the easiest way for enterprises to use basic models to build and expand generative AI applications, lowering the threshold for all developers. On Bedrock, users can access a series of powerful base models from text to images, as well as the newly released Amazon Titan base model, through scalable, reliable and secure Amazon cloud technology hosting services.
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Help start-ups accelerate product polishing
Ensure security compliance and data privacy at the same time
Amazon Cloud Technology also uses its unique "reverse working method" to quickly empower start-ups to eliminate interference, find the right direction, develop and create the most market-appropriate product portfolio around the most basic needs of users. The "reverse working method" advocates starting from the results expected by customers, confirming the value, and then reversely deriving what needs to be done, and finally implementing it. In the implementation phase, following the concept of "Minimum Viable Product", we strive to quickly form a prototype that can generate value within a few weeks, and then iterate.
Although generative AI has lowered the threshold for enterprises to obtain AI capabilities, there is no compression algorithm for experience, and the difficulty of releasing safe and reliable products in a large-scale market has not been reduced. Security compliance, data protection, and user privacy remain top priorities. The first priority of Amazon Cloud Technology is security compliance. Amazon Cloud Technology provides users with a full range of security services. There are currently more than 300 security and compliance services and functions in the world, covering threat detection and incident response, identity authentication and access control. , network and infrastructure security, data protection and privacy, and risk control and compliance, and adhere to the establishment of strict security and compliance standards in the global business scope to meet the compliance requirements of almost all regulatory agencies around the world, customers Fully inheritable.
At present, Amazon cloud technology has supported many outstanding start-ups in the emerging AI track:
Luchen Technology: Low-cost training and deployment of large AI models
Luchen Technology received support including cloud computing resources, Amazon cloud technology ecology, and joint marketing opportunities after the Amazon Cloud Technology Cloud Innovation Program. Its core product, Colossal-AI, is currently the most popular open source AI large model solution. It can efficiently and quickly deploy AI large model training and reasoning based on PyTorch, reducing the cost of AI large model application. At present, Colossal-AI has harvested about 30,000 GitHub Stars from the open source community, and has been ranked first in the world on the GitHub hot list for many times. Based on Amazon Cloud Technology's machine learning platform Amazon SageMaker, which integrates and efficiently calls Colossal-AI, Luchen Technology and Amazon Cloud Technology have jointly helped many users greatly improve efficiency and improve efficiency in various large-scale model development, reconstruction, training, deployment, and monitoring Reduce computing resource costs.
Gemsouls: Using NLP technology to create virtual humans with souls
With the support of Amazon Cloud Technology Cloud Entrepreneurship Program, Gemsouls has obtained Amazon Cloud Technology service credits, technical support and training, so as to quickly realize technology verification and deployment on the cloud, and realize it in a shorter period of time with lower upfront costs scale. Gemsouls uses natural language processing (NLP) + reinforcement learning (RL) artificial intelligence technology, combined with user-generated content (UGC) + artificial intelligence-generated content (AIGC) to produce content, and is committed to tailoring thousands of people for users. A virtual human with thousands of faces and a soul.
epilogue
In the wave of development of emerging tracks, there is never a shortage of start-ups with foresight and firm grasp of opportunities. Amazon Cloud Technology is committed to helping Chinese entrepreneurs realize their entrepreneurial dreams more efficiently and in a more targeted manner, and Accelerate to the global market. To this end, Amazon Cloud Technology is about to upgrade its empowerment project in Greater China, helping Chinese start-ups and Entrepreneurs grasp the new wave of AI and accelerate the expansion of new businesses in overseas markets.