AWS Startups Blog
Author: Rob Ferguson
Rob is the Global Head of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Startups and Venture Capital at AWS, based in San Francisco. Prior to AWS, he worked as a CTO/VPE of two Y Combinator startups raising over $150M+, with expertise in AI/ML as well as consumer electronics and media. As CTO of Automatic Labs, Rob earned one of Y Combinator’s 10 biggest exits as well as a 4.5+ star product on Amazon.
Accelerating AI/ML scaling and AI development with Anyscale and AWS
Building a cloud-distributed and scalable artificial intelligence (AI) application is a cross-team effort that requires complicated management of resources and comes with numerous production concerns such as code changes, refactoring, setting up the infrastructure, and complex developer operations (DevOps). These can confuse the development process, slow down time-to-market, and keep developers from focusing on product innovation.