AWS beats Google and Microsoft to launching instances with Nvidia Volta GPUs

Amazon Web Services is the first cloud to launch new compute instances that allow developers to build applications that tap into Nvidia's new generation of Volta GPUs, which are designed to provide high-performance acceleration for applications like AI computation. Companies all over are turning to machine learning to help propel their businesses, but building new models often requires a great deal of computation. The Volta is supposed to be a good deal faster at that than past generations of Nvidia's silicon, and making it available through Amazon's cloud means that companies will be able to get started using them right away. Customers will be able to run instances with up to 8 V100 GPUs, which will be made available initially from AWS's Northern Virginia, Oregon, Ireland, and Tokyo datacenters. Nvidia launched a new GPU Cloud offering alongside AWS, which is designed to provide companies with the most optimized environment for running deep learning applications on top of the company's hardware in a public cloud.