To satisfy their generative AI urge, firms need to secure state-of-the-art software and ramp up computing power, which quickly brings them knocking on the doors of the globe's cloud computing giants, of which Amazon's AWS is the biggest.Amazon's computing arsenal is housed in data centers scattered across the globe, and Prasad Kalyanaraman, Vice President for AWS Infrastructure, is the man in charge of keeping them running.
So why not bring this to them,' much like utilities bring power to your home, he said.Nearly two decades later, AWS is nearing 20 percent of the giant's total revenue and bringing in about two-thirds of total profit.- Constraint as opportunity -'It's a pretty significant undertaking to actually construct a data center from scratch,' Kalyanaraman said.'First, obviously, we have to find enough land to be able to deploy these data centers.