AWS re:Invent 2018 recap: Everything the tech sector does, AWS wants to do better
Summary
If you doubted that AWS wanted to be your premier enterprise technology vendor -- not just your cloud stack -- re:Invent 2018 erased them and revealed much broader ambitions.Jassy struck a tone of defiance in how he talked about liberating builders from being boxed in by legacy systems and enterprises focused on everything but the customer.Jassy went on to note that Oracles approach to customers -- audits, license and maintenance increases and architecture -- is like a bad relationship enterprises are trying to escape.For starters, AWS played the "I can develop my own GPU too" as it launched Inferentia, a dedicated machine learning chip that will compete with Nvidia as well as Googles TPU efforts.Jassy claimed the service is "providing up to 50 percent more accurate forecasts than what people were doing before at one-tenth the cost of traditional supply chain software.