Artificial Intelligence and Hybrid Cloud Are High on Amazon's Agenda

Dubbed as Amazon AI, the new service offers powerful AI capabilities such as image analysis, text to speech conversion, and natural language processing. On the analytics front, Amazon is adding a new interactive, serverless query service called Amazon Athena that can be used to retrieve data stored in Amazon S3. With this, customers can run and manage workloads in the cloud, seamlessly from existing VMware tools. Extending Lambda to connected devices, AWS has announced AWS Greengrass – an embedded Lambda compute environment that can be installed in IoT devices and hubs.