November 3, 2022via Amazon Science
Building systems that automatically adjust to workloads and data
Why it matters
Amazon is betting big on AI-driven database optimization by hiring top academic talent to lead a new research group focused on systems that learn and adapt to workloads automatically.
Key signals
- Tim Kraska joined Amazon summer 2022
- New Learned Systems research group at Amazon
- Instance optimization technology
- Automatic workload adjustment systems
The hook
MIT professor Tim Kraska just joined Amazon to build something called 'Learned Systems' - AI that automatically optimizes databases without human intervention.
Tim Kraska, who joined Amazon this summer to build the new Learned Systems research group, explains the power of “instance optimization”.
Relevance score:75/100