Articles about Peter Desantis

AWS veteran Matt Wood returns to cloud giant in new role: chief AI and technology officer

Matt Wood, who spent more than 14 years helping to lead Amazon Web Services’ artificial intelligence and machine learning initiatives… Read More

Head of Amazon’s AGI lab is leaving in latest exit from high-profile Adept startup deal

David Luan, who led Amazon’s AGI Lab and its Nova Act AI agent initiative, is leaving less than two years after joining through the Adept acqui-hire deal. Four of five Adept co-founders have now left the company. Read More

Amazon AI chief Rohit Prasad leaving; Infrastructure exec Peter DeSantis to lead unified AI group

Amazon AI chief Rohit Prasad is leaving at year’s end, according to a memo from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. Peter DeSantis, a 27-year veteran who has led AWS infrastructure, will oversee a new organization combining AI, silicon, and quantum computing. Read More

Amazon Web Services’ infrastructure czar Peter DeSantis now part of Amazon’s inner circle, according to report

Peter DeSantis, who oversees the massive cloud computing infrastructure that Amazon Web Services has built in becoming the world’s leading… Read More

Why Amazon Web Services’ Graviton server chip could unleash a new era of cloud-native hardware

LAS VEGAS – Anyone who has built a data center or cloud service provider over the last 15 years knows… Read More

With Firecracker, Amazon Web Services reinvents its serverless computing infrastructure and open-source reputation

LAS VEGAS — Early developer reaction to Amazon Web Services’ Firecracker project suggests the company has pulled off a big… Read More

Network effects: Amazon Web Services touts improvements to its networking services that should boost app performance

LAS VEGAS – Amazon Web Services has built a state-of-the-art network around the world in order to serve its cloud… Read More

Amazon Web Services’ Peter DeSantis sheds more light on the cloud giant’s custom chip strategy

Evolving cloud workloads are going to require evolving hardware strategies to anticipate those future demands, and Amazon Web Services continues… Read More

Get a sneak peek at Amazon Web Services’ latest infrastructure updates from Peter DeSantis at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit

As the man in charge of the public cloud leader’s sprawling computing resources, Peter DeSantis needs to have his finger… Read More

Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, Slack and Apple tech leaders headline GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit

Many of the advances in cloud computing over the past decade were about getting the people out of the way,… Read More

That’s so metal: Amazon Web Services unveils bare-metal instances for EC2 compute customers

Server virtualization was one of the great breakthroughs in enterprise computing over the last 20 years, allowing people to get… Read More