AWS recently connected with over 18,000 in-person and 267,000 virtual attendees at NVIDIA GTC, a global AI conference held in March 2024 in San Jose, California. During the conference, AWS and NVIDIA celebrated their 13-year collaboration, highlighting their ongoing efforts to enable developers access to cutting-edge AI technology, including AWS’s pioneering role in offering NVIDIA GPUs in the public cloud.
During the conference, AWS and NVIDIA announced further strategies to advance generative AI. Key announcements included AWS’s commitment to offer NVIDIA’s new Blackwell platform as EC2 instances to accelerate the performance of running inferences on large language models (LLMs). AWS will also provide the cloud infrastructure for Project Ceiba, an AI supercomputer built on AWS and NVIDIA DGX Cloud.
Other announcements touched on the integration of Amazon SageMaker with NVIDIA’s NIM inference microservices and the acceleration of generative AI in biology and drug discovery through AWS HealthOmics and NVIDIA’s BioNeMo platform. Furthermore, the ongoing collaboration between Amazon Robotics and NVIDIA was highlighted.
During the conference, AWS CEO Adam Selipsky emphasized on CNBC’s “Mad Money” that AWS’s innovative relationship with NVIDIA has driven significant efficiency and scalability benefits for customers. In particular, the ongoing collaboration has led to wider deployment of NVIDIA GPUs in AWS’s public cloud infrastructure.
The conference also drew significant media attention, with over 100 articles mentioning AWS and Amazon, many of which focused on the upcoming AWS and NVIDIA’s Project Ceiba, an AI research supercomputer.
AWS’s presence extended beyond just announcements; AWS also had multiple sessions demonstrating its generative AI services such as LLMs with Anthropic and Cohere on Amazon Bedrock and AWS AI Chess Robots powered by NVIDIA Jetson platform and NVIDIA GPUs.
Partners and customers also joined AWS at the GTC, with 23 demos exhibited at the AWS booth, covering a wide range of applications, including generative AI startups supported by the AWS Startups team.
Finally, NVIDIA was announced as one of the 45 launch partners for the new AWS Generative AI Competency program, offering resources and best practices for AWS partners to build, market, and sell generative AI solutions.
