Amazon Cloud Technology Announces Four Strategic Initiatives of “Connecting with China and Foreign Countries, Supporting Baiye, Bringing Partners, and Promoting Green”

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The two-day Amazon Cloud Technology China Summit with the theme of “Freedom to Build and Explore Unlimited” will be held online on October 13, 2022. On the first day, Amazon Cloud Technology released six major cloud computing technology trends, announcing the four strategic measures of “connecting with China and foreign countries, supporting all industries, bringing partners, and promoting green”, further utilizing the global advantages and resources of Amazon Cloud Technology, and better rooting Locally in China, empower customers to explore and innovate digitally, and help the sustainable development of China’s digital economy.

At the beginning of the summit, Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon Cloud Technology, said, “China has always been one of the most strategic layouts of Amazon Cloud Technology in the world. The achievements of Chinese customers in the two areas of sustainable development and digital transformation are very impressive. Excited. We are also excited to continue working closely with these great customers and look forward to our shared future.”

At the summit, Amazon Cloud Technology also upgraded and launched the “Automotive Industry Innovation Acceleration Plan” 2.0 to help the transformation of the automotive industry; deepened the strategic cooperation with SAP, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Infor to help all industries go to the cloud. plastic. In addition, Amazon Cloud Technology also announced that two renewable energy projects supported by China have been put into operation; it has joined hands with NVIDIA to help start-ups grow rapidly; and the public welfare project “AI in the Future” initiated in China has launched its second-year plan.

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Zhang Wenyi, Amazon Global Vice President and Amazon Cloud Technology Greater China Executive Director, announced four strategic initiatives

Four strategic initiatives

Zhang Wenyi, Amazon Global Vice President and Executive Director of Amazon Cloud Technology Greater China, said, “Whether it is the digital transformation and innovation of enterprises, the transformation and upgrading of various industries, and even the realization of the beautiful vision of carbon neutrality, we all hope to contribute our own. The four major strategic measures of Amazon Cloud Technology in China are to become the best technology bridge for enterprises to expand globally, to help the transformation and innovation of all walks of life, to continue to build a strong partner network, and to help enterprises accelerate energy conservation and emission reduction These are the manifestations that while we are exploring the frontiers of cloud computing, we also hope to empower pathfinders from all walks of life to help them actively explore new possibilities and promote long-term business development.”

even Chinese and foreign

Amazon Cloud Technology is committed to becoming the best technical bridge for the global expansion of enterprises through the strategic move of “connecting with China and foreign countries” . For Chinese enterprises going overseas, Amazon Cloud Technology leads the industry’s security compliance concepts and practices through global infrastructure, rich cloud services such as big data, artificial intelligence and machine learning, Internet of Things, and Amazon’s global business system to help They rapidly expanded their global business layout, responded to security compliance challenges in various regions, and supported their overseas business innovation and expansion. At the same time, Amazon Cloud Technology also provides strong support for multinational companies to take root in China through a globally consistent technical architecture, local security compliance capabilities and experience, local partner solutions, and a globally integrated team to accelerate their efforts in China. Business innovation and transformation.

Xiang Baiye

Amazon Cloud Technology uses the “Xiang Baiye” strategic initiative to help digital transformation and innovation in all walks of life. For key industries such as finance, manufacturing, automotive, retail FMCG, medical and life sciences, education, games, media and entertainment, e-commerce, energy and power, Amazon Cloud Technology has established a professional team to deeply understand customer needs and use its Leading technology and solutions to promote the transformation and upgrading of the entire industry. For example, for the automotive industry, Amazon Cloud Technology has made efforts in three key areas of autonomous driving, Internet of Vehicles, and software-defined vehicles, fully empowering the automotive industry to transform into digital. In the manufacturing industry, Amazon Cloud Technology will promote the transformation of China’s manufacturing industry to high-end, intelligent and green from core application scenarios such as engineering and design, overall equipment efficiency and production optimization, supply chain management, intelligent equipment, and quality management. In the retail industry, Amazon Cloud Technology will start from core business scenarios such as private domain operations, online retail/e-commerce, and intelligent customer service, and promote all-round changes from product design, business models to shopping experience.

Bring a partner

Amazon Cloud Technology further builds a partner network, and realizes the coverage of all types, industries and regions of the partner network from three aspects: improvement of partner technology and customer service capabilities, industry solution development, and business development in new regions. Better meet customer needs. To this end, Amazon Cloud Technology also launched the ISV full growth path, providing technical support for them to accelerate the SaaSization of products and service specialization; through sales resources, Amazon Cloud Technology Marketplace and Amazon’s innovation culture, help partners build a business growth flywheel; use Amazon Unique global resources and support help partners go overseas and strengthen access to global customers.

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Zhang Wenyi, Amazon Global Vice President and Amazon Cloud Technology Greater China Executive Director, announced strategic cooperation with three major partners

At this summit, Amazon Cloud Technology also announced the deepening of strategic cooperation with three partners, SAP, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Infor , to help reshape the cloud in all walks of life. Amazon Cloud Technology has reached a strategic cooperation with SAP, the world’s leading provider of enterprise application software and cloud solutions, and the one-stop acceleration package of RISE with SAP business transformation has officially landed in the Amazon Cloud Technology China region operated by NWCD and Sinnet. Amazon Cloud Technology will also join hands with its global core consulting partner PricewaterhouseCoopers to further strengthen strategic cooperation in artificial intelligence, security compliance solutions and industry expansion. Infor, the world’s leading supplier of enterprise management software, has fully selected Amazon cloud technology in China to provide ERP solutions for different industries. Following Infor’s hotel management solution, Infor’s ERP solution for the manufacturing industry, Infor CloudSuite Industrial, will also be launched in the Amazon Cloud Technology China region operated by NWCD and Sinnet.

Promote green

Amazon Cloud Technology will help companies implement sustainable development strategies through the “promoting green” strategy. First, build sustainable cloud infrastructure, continuously build high-availability infrastructure, improve methods of cooling data centers, and reduce energy and water use; second, innovate sustainable cloud services and continuously improve the hardware of cloud services and software efficiency to help customers optimize cloud workloads; third, develop cloud applications for sustainable development, provide rich solutions, comprehensively evaluate the company’s own carbon emissions and the performance of direct and indirect suppliers, and conduct carbon emissions management and supply chain risk management. For example, Amazon Cloud Technology’s free carbon footprint tool “Carbon Footprint Tool” displays historical carbon emissions in a visual way, estimates the carbon emissions reduction by using Amazon Cloud Technology to replace local data centers, and can estimate future carbon emissions based on current usage. carbon emission.

Two Amazon-backed renewable energy projects in China, a solar project in Shandong and a wind project in Jilin, are also officially operational. The two projects are expected to generate 496,000 megawatt-hours (MWh) of renewable energy annually, equivalent to powering 250,000 ordinary Chinese households.

Six cloud technology trends

Amazon Cloud Technology has always been in the leading position in the global cloud computing industry, with the breadth and depth of services leading the industry. Amazon Cloud Technology is still constantly exploring the boundaries of cloud technology, promoting the continuous innovation of cloud technology itself, and accelerating the digital transformation journey of all walks of life.

First of all, based on the infrastructure covering the world, Amazon Cloud Technology continues to expand the boundaries of the cloud, from cities, to remote areas, and even space, no matter where the customer’s workload is, Amazon Cloud Technology can be in the right place. Time to provide cloud computing services that meet customer needs.

Second, start innovation from the bottom, through the self-developed core system Amazon Nitro, the self-developed chip Amazon Graviton, and the chips Amazon Inferentia and Amazon Trainium for machine learning inference and training, to help customers’ workloads become more powerful on the cloud performance and higher cost performance.

Third, promote the database into the cloud-native era, and build specialized databases for different application scenarios to meet the diverse business needs of enterprises.

Fourth, integrate machine learning capabilities into different types of cloud services, such as computing, storage, database, data analysis, and security services, to improve the intelligence level of cloud services themselves and improve enterprise productivity.

Fifth, promote cloud services to become serverless in an all-round way, from computing, storage to database, data analysis, and machine learning, to help enterprises minimize operation and maintenance work, increase business agility, and better cope with various business uncertainties .

Finally, through the cloud, cutting-edge technologies such as quantum computing and satellite communications are within reach, helping more companies have the opportunity to apply these cutting-edge technologies to explore more possibilities, such as drug research and development, natural disaster warning, etc.

Practice corporate social responsibility

Amazon Cloud Technology has always been committed to using global resources to help start-ups grow and cultivate talents, and fulfill corporate social responsibilities. Relying on the global and local start-up system and investment business development team, as well as the global network of venture capital partners, Amazon Cloud Technology has established a rich enabling mechanism, thus providing hundreds of thousands of start-ups around the world with large enterprise resources and Resources for Amazon’s global business system. In China, Amazon Cloud Technology maintains close cooperation with more than 200 venture capital and entrepreneurial incubators, supporting more than 10,000 Chinese start-ups.

At this summit, Amazon Cloud Technology announced that it will cooperate with NVIDIA to provide cloud computing resource support to member companies of the NVIDIA Startup Acceleration Program in the next two years. The two parties will also jointly launch the “Metaverse Thousand Talents Program” to provide additional cloud computing resource support for start-ups in the metaverse field using NVIDIA Omniverse to help start-ups accelerate their growth.

In terms of talent training, Amazon Cloud Technology has cultivated cloud computing talents for the Chinese industry by providing rich global education and training resources and a diversified talent training system. At present, more than 700,000 people in China have benefited from the training and practice of Amazon Cloud Technology talents. project. In order to stimulate the public’s interest in machine learning and promote the popularization of artificial intelligence knowledge.

During this summit, Amazon Cloud Technology also attracted 4,936 racers from all over the world to participate in the Amazon DeepRacer autonomous driving competition, and successfully set the Guinness World Record for the “largest machine learning competition” .

In addition, the first year of the “AI in the Future” public welfare project launched in China was successfully completed. More than 2,500 students from 25 schools in Guizhou, Yunnan and other central and western provinces participated in the project. In the new school year, it is also expected to cover 4,000 students in 40 schools in four provinces of Ningxia, Qinghai, Gansu and Yunnan.

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