Exclusive With AWS Sales Chief Matt Garman: How Amazon Aims To Lead In Generative AI
SiliconANGLE , Wednesday, June 28,2023
For more than two decades, Amazon Web Services Inc. has been the undisputed leader of cloud computing, but with the recent eight-month surge towards artificial intelligence applications, rivals such as Microsoft Corp. are swiftly gaining ground.
The sudden generative AI shift has caused a rush among developers and businesses to embrace AI, and Microsoft's monumental $10 billion investment in OpenAI LP has positioned it as a potential industry frontrunner. With these changes, questions have been swirling about AWS' leadership and position in the new cloud battleground: the generative AI market.
Can AWS maintain its leadership or will it forfeit the lead to Microsoft and other emerging contenders? I wanted to find out directly from AWS, and to do so I had an exclusive interview with Matt Garman, senior vice president of AWS sales and marketing at Amazon.