I agree, it’s been a really important acquisition. And as part of that, a couple years into that, we did the Annapurna acquisition. But as you alluded to, Dave, we started thinking about custom silicon really almost a decade ago, started talking about it, started to get a plan together. And those partnerships are not going anywhere and matter a lot to us. Talk about how you’re thinking about that capability in the context of alternative processors.įirst I’ll just add that we certainly anticipate continuing to be close partners with x86 space and GPU-based vendors. Google’s copying it, Microsoft, Alibaba, sort of VMware. Vellante: We’ve said that we think that Annapurna acquisition would be one of the greatest in the history of the computer industry: a $350 million acquisition is setting the architectural direction for the entire industry. AWS and other sponsors have no editorial control over content on SiliconANGLE or theCUBE.) In the chips (* Disclosure: SiliconANGLE and theCUBE are paid media partners at AWS re:Invent. If you’re at re:Invent, stop by theCUBE’s studio in the exhibit hall. Also, check out wall-to-wall coverage of re:Invent by theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, and SiliconANGLE all this week and beyond for exclusive interviews with AWS executives and others in the AWS ecosystem. You can also get the big picture from Selipsky’s entire interview here, and don’t miss the other installments of the full interview on SiliconANGLE earlier this week. In this final installment of a four-part interview with me and Wikibon Chief Analyst Dave Vellante ahead of the company’s re:Invent conference running this week in Las Vegas, Selipsky also explained why AWS is designing so many of its own chips, with many more to come. “We’re still in the very early innings of a big shift in the definition of how expansive is the cloud, where does it take place and where in that equation do different capabilities get exercised.” where should computing and analysis take place,” says AWS Chief Executive Adam Selipsky (pictured). “Over time, we’ll have more and more intelligent ways of knowing which data should stay local, which data should move to a more central location.

And AWS is looking to make sure it’s positioned to serve the growing appetite for edge computing. has blossomed into a $60 billion-plus annual revenue company by persuading thousands of businesses that running their information technology operations in its cloud makes much more sense than running their own data centers.īut now, a lot of processing is moving to the edge of networks as more workloads such as machine learning can’t afford the latency involved with sending data back and forth in the cloud.

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