Fountainhead News: Mar 10, 2017
I. Amazon
A mazon Internet Services has 2 kinds of Advanced Allies: technology companions like Elemental (who they got) and consulting partners like Accenture. The problem is you can only choose to be among the two due to the fact that it’s a badge of count on for the Amazon sales chaps. So, with some firms that match both, you wind up having to flip to and fro. The only way around it is to register twice making use of two various entities and the discomfort is not likely to be worth it.
So if you operate on AWS, you might be an innovation companion, however the managed services indicates you can be a consulting companion. The advantage of doing this is clearly a market play to be on their Advanced Companion list and the opportunity of getting something through their sales channel.
AWS additionally has a thorough Design Testimonial for your item, which is a consent and means it’s developed utilizing all the very best methods and guidelines that AWS is likewise built on. It’s interior just, however within Amazon, attaining that badge of honor is highly regarded and acknowledged.
“We’re an Advanced Partner and our System is Well Architected.”
We’ve been through both of these effectively.
The most effective next step is to obtain direct exposure by amassing talking involvements at Re: design, and be a squeaky wheel so you get a little bit extra attention. AWS has two lads in APAC who we know well.
If you remain in business of partnering with cloud solutions, you might intend to explore it.
II. Microsoft, Google, IBM, Netflix
No one in the Media industry appears to ever speak about Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud for the facilities underlying a video clip system. Amazon is the only game in town. Microsoft has a far better media solutions platform based upon their lengthy media history, however no consumers are requesting them. IBM is likely the 4 th gamer yet gets discussed extra as the AI element for Watson.
Microsoft call it their Encyclopedia, Google their Expertise Chart. Maybe a matter of time before they link their AI for Video items to their educational search product. They’ll likely start asking large media clients to provide test video and might possibly get premium video clip to examination.
In the future, we might see customers begin to acquire a different AI model for different usage situations: Social video clip versus Hollywood video clip.
We spoke with a reliable source that Amazon is working with the eCommerce for Video clip utilize instance (i.e., view a show, see a list of products that were in the show after that, acquire the product and have it provided next day). They have actually obtained the video clip platform, retail supply, and choice and pack shipping logistics. This might be a big boon to their profits and future stock price (see The Base Code for investing
When you see Amazon Video clip, they have scene-by-scene actor and character data that they call XRay that works on Web and FireTV. We’re not quite sure just how they’re creating it, though, because no one has that level of training information completely labelled. On top of that, Amazon’s Instant Video clip group is different from their AWS/ Artificial intelligence team. It might be Mechanical Turk doing hand note of video clip.
The Alexa group is separate from the Fire team.
This is really various than Netflix certainly. Amazon appears to be a a lot more closed company into teams as a result of their sheer size.
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— Sean
