Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE) are innovating together to transform how some of Canada's best-known sports franchises create and deliver extraordinary sports moments and enhanced fan engagement. The sports franchises include Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto Raptors, Toronto Football Club (FC) and Toronto Argonauts. MLSE selected AWS as its official cloud provider and official provider of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and deep learning cloud services. MLSE will use AWS's comprehensive portfolio of cloud capabilities, including ML, advanced analytics, compute, database, and storage services to support their teams and lines of business. Innovating together, MLSE will build solutions that will support how teams play on the ice, court, pitch, or field; how players stay healthy; how fans connect with each other and experience games; and how sports franchises operate internally.

Artificial intelligence has its spread everywhere these days and has been impacting every walk of life in the past decade. These days when we are surrounded by tons of gadgets and devices, there is an increasing role that artificial intelligence has to play. People have feared artificial intelligence right since its inception. Movies have in the past portrayed AI as a demonic character. Many people have equated AI with a major threat to human existence. So where does all this fuss about AI lead to?