The AWS AI blueprint and Intel’s Foundry woes [Video]

This week much was revealed about Amazon Web Services Inc.’s artificial intelligence strategy and progress, beyond what had already been gleaned from re:Invent 2023. Digging into that strategy was one of the major topics on the itinerary for theCUBE Research industry analysts John Furrier (pictured, left) and Dave Vellante (right) on the latest episode of the CUBE podcast.

At a recent analyst event, Matt Wood, vice president of AI at AWS, presented a series of seven or eight steps along the journey to adoption of AI.

“It really wasn’t linear steps, but he took us through that, started with training, and then he made a big deal out of security and privacy, which AWS has always been focused on security and privacy designed in,” Vellante said. “And, of course, it was timely.”

Vellante also referenced the summer 2023 Microsoft Exchange online intrusion from Chinese hackers, something he also discussed in a recent edition of his Breaking Analysis series. The report stated that the board found the intrusion preventable, that …