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Using machine learning for virtual-machine placement in the cloud

10% improvement. That's what Amazon's new ML system achieved for cloud infrastructure optimization.

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Cloud infrastructure costs are massive for enterprises, and Amazon's ML-driven virtual machine placement could signal broader automation of data center operations that affects every company's cloud spending.

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  1. 10% performance improvement over baseline methods

  2. Virtual machine placement optimization using machine learning

  3. Amazon Science research publication

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Publisher excerpt: In tests, a new way to allocate virtual machines across servers outperforms baselines by 10%.
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