Amazon is spending billions on deploying engineers into customers looking to get started with AI
- AWS wants to help customers deploy agentic AI at scale
- New FDE organization backed by $1 billion in AWS funding
- BMW and Lyft are early success stories
Amazon Web Services has announced plans to spend $1 billion deploying engineers in customer workplaces to help them build and deploy their own AI systems.
The dedicated AWS Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) organization focuses on getting organizations up and running with agentic AI quickly before making customers self-sufficient so that engineers can depart at the end of the project.
Frontier AI VP Francessca Vasquez explained many of the engineers are already behind many of AWS' own AI services, hinting at the expertise that customers can get access to.
AWS to forward-deploy engineers to speed up AI rollout
"Along with agentic systems running in their own AWS environment, they gain lasting AI skills, workflows, and patterns they can use to innovate independently," Vasquez wrote.
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