Amazon is gearing up its cloud game against Microsoft and Google with the launch of Project Ironman. According to a report by Information, Amazon is working on its artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities with the introduction of a new cloud-based service. Code-named as Ironman, it is officially expected to be announced at the AWS re:Invent 2017 scheduled to begin in the last week of November.
Ironman is the alliance of three prominent attractions this year: data warehouses, artificial intelligence, and cloud.
Data warehouses are databases with faster data retrieval and analytic capabilities. And it seems pretty clear that the cloud market is a highly lucrative space for prominent organizations. More and more cloud vendors seek to rise above their competitors with A.I. as their weapon of choice. With Google being the leader in this race, Amazon seems to be catching up real fast.
Although Amazon already offers cloud solutions, Ironman comes as an upgrade which caters specifically to machine learning and general artificial intelligence companies who are looking for high-performance cloud-based services. How will it do that? Ironman will include a new AWS cloud which will aid in the collection of massive volumes of data from multiple sources and then store them in a centralized location, accessible through end-user queries.
As of now, Ironman will focus on companies in insurance, energy, fraud detection and drug discovery. It will also be beneficial to data scientists, ML developers, and engineers in developing A.I. applications.
The Ironman services will be compatible with NVIDIA GPU chips as well as with the field programmable gate array chips (FPGA). These chips can be reprogrammed depending on the kind of software needed.
DataRobot, an automation startup and Domino Data Lab, an organization developing machine learning solutions for data scientists are two organizations reportedly working with Amazon on the Ironman project.
Ironman is expected to be Amazon’s most capable solution for processing machine learning related data. It is expected to be a direct rival to the Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, the two popular alternatives.
The Information also reported that AWS plans to unveil a cloud-based deep learning service at their event. It is meant to directly compete with Google’s TensorFlow. These two upcoming platforms should build on Amazon’s existing reputation in the A.I. market and gain a superior standing among its competitors in the cloud and A.I. space.
More details regarding Ironman are expected to be announced at re:Invent.