As we step into the new year, Amazon’s influence on global commerce remains unparalleled, and the company’s top 10 news stories for 2023 showcase a series of game-changing initiatives. In the fast-paced realm of e-commerce and technology, Amazon continues to make headlines in 2023 with groundbreaking developments and strategic moves shaping online retail’s future. Amazon, the e-commerce giant, is once again at the forefront of innovation, and the top stories emerging from the company in 2023 are a testament to its commitment to pushing boundaries and setting new standards.
AWS Announces Five New Amazon SageMaker Capabilities for Scaling with Models
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod reduces time to train foundation models by up to 40% by providing purpose-built infrastructure for distributed training at scale
Amazon SageMaker Inference reduces foundation model deployment costs by 50% on average and latency by 20% on average by optimizing the use of accelerators
Amazon SageMaker Clarify now makes it easier for customers to evaluate and select foundation models quickly based on parameters that support responsible use of AI
Amazon SageMaker Canvas capabilities help customers accelerate data preparation using natural-language instructions and model building using foundation models in just a few clicks
BMW Group, Booking.com, Hugging Face, Perplexity, Salesforce, Stability AI, and Vanguard among the customers and partners using new Amazon SageMaker capabilities
At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company announced five new capabilities within Amazon SageMaker to help accelerate building, training, and deployment of large language models and other foundation models. As models continue to transform customer experiences across industries, SageMaker is making it easier and faster for organizations to build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models that power a variety of generative AI uses cases. However, to use models successfully, customers need advanced capabilities that efficiently manage model development, usage, and performance.
AWS Contributes to the Biggest Ever Amazon Prime Day (In Numbers)
126 million requests every second were made during Amazon Prime Day through the Amazon DynamoDB. Amazon DynamoDB is AWS’s NoSQL document database service for high-performance workloads, delivering single-digit millisecond performance at any scale with point-in-time recovery. Amazon Prime was able to handle millions of concurrent shoppers at the same time at lower latency with multi-region replication with AWS’s fully-managed serverless database with automatic backup and restore capabilities.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) ensured the success of Amazon Prime Day this year. Amazon Prime Day 2023 would go down in history as the most prolific event in the e-commerce industry. The 9th annual online shopping fest broke all the existing Prime Day records, registering 22k+ online orders in a minute at its peak in India. Customers, mostly Prime members located in different parts of the world, saved more than $2.5 billion from the purchase of 375 million online products within 48 hours. With a double-digit spike in the number of shopping orders and customer engagement during Amazon Prime Day 2023, the e-commerce company leveraged its cloud infrastructure to its fullest capacity.
Snowflake Achieves U.S. Department of Defense Impact Level 4 Authorization on AWS GovCloud
Latest authorization for Snowflake’s Data Cloud can further help U.S. Department of Defense agencies and partners to modernize and accelerate cloud migration, share data securely and seamlessly, and provide data governance for improved resiliency and enhanced mission success
Snowflake , the Data Cloud company, has received Provisional Authorization (PA) by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) at the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to operate at Impact Level 4 (IL4) on the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region from Amazon Web Services (AWS).
“Snowflake achieving DoD IL4 is a reflection of our commitment to maintaining the highest compliance standards needed for public organizations to achieve their missions”
Capgemini and AWS Announce The Launch Of a Technology Platform
Capgemini and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the launch of Lifecycle Optimization for Aerospace. This platform aims at accelerating the adoption of circular economy1 practices in the aviation industry by automating the inspection process, optimizing lifecycle analysis of aircraft parts, and guiding decisions to extend their lifespan. Several major players in the aviation sector, including Air France and Safran, participated in its development and will be amongst the first users of the platform.
“At least 800 aircraft are dismantled or stored every year. Lifecycle Optimization for Aerospace digitizes maintenance and optimizes aircraft lifespan. We are proud that AWS’s Cloud technologies enable a more sustainable future for the aviation industry,” says Tanuja Randery, Managing Director of EMEA at Amazon Web Services.
CrowdStrike to Accelerate Development of AI in Cybersecurity with AWS
“We are building our generative AI capabilities on AWS to benefit from scale, reliability, and rate of innovation,” said Raj Rajamani, chief product officer DICE (Data Identity Cloud Endpoint) at CrowdStrike. “From innovation across data collection to AI model creation, AWS helped us pioneer cloud-powered cybersecurity, first disrupting endpoint security and now doing the same for cloud security. Today, with cybersecurity’s richest data set, we’re excited to further our AI collaboration with AWS.”
CrowdStrike announced the company is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop powerful new generative AI applications that help customers accelerate their cloud, security and artificial intelligence (AI) journeys. These include both cybersecurity-related generative AI applications, as well as cloud-plus-cloud security solutions designed to help customers build and secure their own generative AI applications.
Lightlytics Launches Google Chrome Extension to Reduce Context Switching in AWS Ops
The Lightlytics Google Chrome extension enriches all web applications (including AWS Console, AWS Cost Explorer, DataDog, VMware CloudHealth, Crowdstrike among others), and provides actionable context on cost, security, availability for each listed resource. The extension doesn’t require any integration with existing tools. A Lightlytics account and Google Chrome are the only requirements for users to start getting all the context they need on their favorite cloud tools.
AWS Announces Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized
Amazon Web Services, an Amazon.com, company announced Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized, a new configuration for Amazon Aurora that offers improved price performance and predictable pricing for customers with input/output (I/O)-intensive applications. With the new Aurora configuration, customers only pay for their database instances and storage consumption with no charges for I/O operations. Customers can now confidently predict costs for their most I/O-intensive workloads, regardless of I/O variability, helping to accelerate their decision to migrate more of their database workloads to AWS. Today, hundreds of thousands of customers, including Airbnb, Atlassian, and Samsung, rely on Aurora, a fully managed MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database that provides the performance and availability of commercial databases at up to one-tenth the cost. For customers with I/O-intensive applications like payment processing systems, ecommerce, and financial applications, I/O-Optimized offers improved performance, increasing throughput and reducing latency to support customers’ most demanding workloads. With Aurora I/O-Optimized, customers can maximize the value of their cloud investment and optimize their database spend by choosing the Aurora configuration that best matches their I/O consumption patterns.
AWS Unveils Next Generation AWS-Designed Chips
WS Graviton4 is the most powerful and energy-efficient AWS processor to date for a broad range of cloud workloads
AWS Trainium2 will power the highest performance compute on AWS for training foundation models faster and at a lower cost, while using less energy
Anthropic, Databricks, Datadog, Epic, Honeycomb, and SAP among customers using new AWS-designed chips
At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company announced the next generation of two AWS-designed chip families—AWS Graviton4 and AWS Trainium2—delivering advancements in price performance and energy efficiency for a broad range of customer workloads, including machine learning (ML) training and generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Graviton4 and Trainium2 mark the latest innovations in chip design from AWS. With each successive generation of chip, AWS delivers better price performance and energy efficiency, giving customers even more options—in addition to chip/instance combinations featuring the latest chips from third parties like AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA—to run virtually any application or workload on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).
AWS Launches Second Infrastructure Region in Canada
Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company announced the launch of its second AWS infrastructure Region in Canada—the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region. Starting .developers, startups, entrepreneurs, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and nonprofit organizations, will have greater choice for running their applications and serving end users from AWS data centers located in Canada. Customers will also have access to advanced AWS technologies, including data analytics, security, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI), to drive innovation. AWS also released a new economic impact study highlighting that the company is planning to invest an estimated $17.9 billion (approximately CA $24.8 billion) in Canada through 2037 via the new AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region and the existing AWS Canada (Central) Region in Quebec. For more information about AWS Global Infrastructure,
AWS Elevates Netrix Global to Premier Partner Status
Netrix Global, award-winning MSSP and MSP, announced that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Partner Status. Netrix has met the rigorous criteria required by AWS, including the accreditations necessary to provide innovative solutions using AWS technologies including cloud infrastructure, automation, optimization, and management of complex environments.
“Netrix Global provides solutions for clients across the full spectrum of complex IT infrastructures,” said Javier D’Ovidio, head of global AWS alliance for Netrix Global. “Being an AWS Premier Partner enables us to deliver additional advanced cloud capabilities and application modernization to drive impactful business outcomes for greater value.”
Last Words
From ambitious sustainability initiatives to cutting-edge advancements in artificial intelligence, Amazon’s journey in 2023 unfolds with a series of captivating narratives that redefine the landscape of online business. Navigating through the ever-evolving landscape of e-commerce, Amazon’s top 10 news stories for 2023 reflect a company on the forefront of technological innovation and strategic expansion, unveiling a narrative of growth and adaptation in the digital age.
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