‘AWS looks forward to working with President Trump, Vice President Vance and the new administration on priorities important to our customers, employees, communities and country,’ says AWS CEO Matt Garman.
“AWS looks forward to working with President Trump, Vice President Vance and the new administration on priorities important to our customers, employees, communities and country,” said Garman on LinkedIn this week.
Amazon founder and Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos had a front-row seat during President Trump’s inauguration event this week.
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Other tech leaders at the U.S. presidential inauguration included Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
This week, President Trump announced a new $500 billion Stargate AI infrastructure venture from Oracle, OpenAI and Softbank.
Also in January, President Trump touted a new $20 billion U.S. data center investment from billionaire Emirati businessman Hussain Sajwani.
AWS Pours $8.3 Billion Into Cloud Infrastructure In India
AWS is one of the largest spenders on hyperscale data centers that power Amazon’s cloud and AI infrastructure for its massive global customer base.
Already this month, AWS committed to investing $11 billion in new data center infrastructure in Georgia to boost its cloud computing and AI technologies.
On Thursday, AWS unveiled it will be investing $8.3 billion specifically in AWS’ Asia-Pacific Mumbai Region located in Maharashtra, India.
Garman said the investment showed AWS is committed to India’s digital transformation efforts which will “empower our customers to innovate with cloud and AI.”
The investment is part of AWS $12.7 billion investment in India, which was unveiled in 2023.
“The investment in Maharashtra is estimated to add more than $15B to India’s GDP, and support more than 81K full-time jobs in the local data center supply chain annually by 2030,” Garman said.
New Video AI Model For Bedrock
Also this week, Garman touted the Seatle-based company’s new AI video model Ray2 from Luma AI.
With Luma Ray2 now in Amazon Bedrock, users can add high-quality, production-ready videos generated from text in their generative AI application through a single API. Customers can use the Luma Ray2 model to generate video clips from text to create captivating graphics, he said.
“This powerful video generation model, trained on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod, quickly transforms natural language prompts into production-quality videos with some pretty amazing results,” said Garman.
Garman touted that AWS is the first and only cloud provider offering this new model, “expanding options for customers in industries spanning entertainment, advertising, media, and more.”
‘Startups Are The Lifeblood Of AWS’
Garman also commented on how important startups are to the $110 billion cloud computing company.
“Startups are the lifeblood of AWS, and it’s really exciting to help these companies bring products to market faster and support them with world-class infrastructure and technology,” said Garman on LinkedIn this week.
Garman spent time with startup founders and leaders this week in California. “2025 is going to be another exciting year in this space,” he said.
AWS parent company Amazon confirmed Friday that the company will report its fourth- quarter 2024 financial earnings results on Feb. 6.
