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Building systems that automatically adjust to workloads and data

MIT professor Tim Kraska just joined Amazon to build something called 'Learned Systems' - AI that automatically optimizes databases without human intervention.

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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.

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  1. Tim Kraska joined Amazon summer 2022

  2. New Learned Systems research group at Amazon

  3. Instance optimization technology

  4. Automatic workload adjustment systems

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Publisher excerpt: Tim Kraska, who joined Amazon this summer to build the new Learned Systems research group, explains the power of “instance optimization”.
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