AWS SUMMIT
If anyone were to come to you and say that they had found a way to make your company 80% more efficient, I imagine your response would be either “please, tell me more” or “you’re talking rubbish.” When the person making these claims is the VP & Managing Director of AWS UK & Ireland, you might be willing to listen more. “At AWS, we needed to completely rebuild the inference engine behind Bedrock from scratch,” said Allison Kay at the AWS Summit London. “Now, if you’d asked me two years ago what that would have taken, I would have said 40 engineers, 12 months and a whole lot of coffee. “Six engineers did it in 76 days. How? Because they weren’t working alone, they were working alongside Kiro agents that wrote code, tested it, found bugs, fixed them, and deployed it around the clock. While the engineers slept, the agents kept building.” This message around AI is one that we have come to familiarise ourselves with over the last year or so. On stage, Kay said that the speed AI can bring could be described as “magic” before scuppering her chances of entering the magic circle by revealing the foundation of how AWS are making businesses more efficient. “Today, we are here to demystify the science behind the magic,” said Kay. “We’ve distilled it down to three building blocks. “The first is a modern cloud infrastructure, the foundation that unlocks the full digital potential of every business. The second, well, it’s AI, the capability that transforms possibility into reality. And the third is skills, the people who know how to harness the infrastructure and the AI to create the magic.” One of the fundamental ways AWS encouraged its customers to embrace AI is to modernise the services they use and go deeper with AWS in order to get the best out of the hyperscaler. Or as Kay put it: “You can’t build advanced AI on outdated foundations. “The real transformation is not in the migration, it’s in the modernisation. Modernisation is about optimising workloads built, breaking down monolithic barriers, eliminating the technical debt and building for the future. It’s what helps data to stop being trapped in legacy platforms. It becomes accessible, queryable, and actionable. “Modernisation makes systems move faster, more resilient, secure and cost-efficient, and importantly, it unlocks the transformative power of AI. Now, interestingly, our research shows that 64% of UK organisations have now adopted AI, up from 52% only a year ago. That’s the equivalent of one UK business adopting AI every 40 seconds; however, only one in four of those adopters are using AI at its most advanced levels. “Most organisations are still in the early stages of adoption, employee productivity, basic automation and experimentation, and our research shows that the UK could unlock 35 billion pounds of productivity gains by 2030 if Basic adopters moved to advanced AI.”
Allison Kay
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makes systems move faster, more resilient, secure and cost- efficient, and importantly, it unlocks the transformative power of AI.
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