Welcome to the Cloud Wars Minute — your daily cloud news and commentary show. Each episode provides insights and perspectives around the “reimagination machine” that is the cloud.
In today’s Cloud Wars Minute, I discuss AWS’s massive $100 billion investment in AI infrastructure, its impact on the cloud industry, and how Amazon sees AI as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity shaping its future.
Highlights
00:16 — AWS clearly described how it is going to blow past Microsoft, Google Cloud, and Google overall in investments in AI data centers and related infrastructure in 2025. AWS is going to pony up $100 billion (it spent about $26 billion in Q4). Whereas for Microsoft, $80 billion. Google Cloud, about $75 billion.
01:24 — About the DeepSeek phenomenon, Andy Jassy said, “Oh, it’s very interesting. We see what they’ve done. We all learn from each other. I’m sure we’ll take a look at some of the advances that DeepSeek has made.” But I don’t think we’re going to see, DeepSeek become a threat to anybody in the Cloud Wars Top 10.
02:17 — AWS in Q4 — its revenue is up 19% to $28.8 billion. That is the second straight quarter for them of 19% growth. And since they’ve had their new CEO in, they have been on a streak now of an accelerating growth rate. For Q4, AWS was the only one of the three original hyperscalers that was able to maintain its Q3 growth rate into Q4.
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03:07 — On the Q4 earnings call, Andy Jassy, the CEO of Amazon described the whole AI opportunity and the reason behind this incredible investment from Amazon. He said AI represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It’s going to touch all parts of the cloud, from infrastructure to inferencing, to the language models that are used, up to the applications that are happening.
04:09 — This is clearly what Amazon is prioritizing. The bullishness and confidence that Amazon and AWS have for why they are going in so deeply and so aggressively on their investments to ensure that they become one of the leaders in AI for a long time to come.
