Amazon Web Service (AWS) Machine Learning Use Up 250%

Use of Amazon Web Services' (AWS) Machine Learning (ML) – which lets developers add intelligence to applications and ramp up analytics – has more than doubled in the past year, the company said late Thursday. The 250 percent increase was driven by "broad adoption" of SageMaker, its end-to-end managed ML service, which was released in November, Amazon said. FICO, GE Healthcare, Grammarly, KloudGin, Lau Brothers, Limbik, Lionbridge, NFL, VMware, and more were among the new adopters cited by the company in its Q1 results. The figures come as companies scramble into the ML/AI space. Yesterday Microsoft customer Thoughtonomy, for example, announced the release of an enhanced AI functionality within its Software as a Service platform, which operates on Microsoft Azure.