Snowflake commits $6B to AWS for AI and Graviton compute infrastructure
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Summary
Snowflake has committed $6 billion over five years to Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Graviton compute and GPU-accelerated EC2 instances, marking its largest-ever cloud spend commitment. The deal, announced ahead of Snowflake's annual summit, covers AWS's ARM-based Graviton processors and GPU infrastructure for AI model training and inference. This strategic collaboration signals Snowflake's deepening push into AI workloads and its expectation that AI will drive future business growth.
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· 3 pulledSnowflake is committing $6 billion over five years to Amazon Web Services for Graviton compute and AI infrastructure, the data company's largest cloud spend commitment to date and a clear sign of its ambitions in the AI space.
This multi-year strategic collaboration agreement, announced by AWS on Wednesday, covers AWS's ARM-based Graviton processors and GPU-accelerated EC2 instances, which Snowflake will use for AI model training and inference.
Ahead of its annual summit, Snowflake's largest-ever infrastructure commitment signals where the company expects its workloads (and its business) to go.
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