Amazon's AI Resurgence: AWS and Anthropic's Multi-Gigawatt Trainium Expansion
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- AWS faces a 'cloud crisis' as it struggles to transition into the GPU/XPU Cloud era, lagging behind Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
- Anthropic, a GenAI market outperformer, is Amazon's key to resurgence, with revenue surging to $5B annualized in 2025.
- AWS is constructing over 1.3GW of datacenter capacity for Anthropic, focusing on Trainium chips, despite their unproven status.
- Trainium2, while lagging behind Nvidia in specifications, offers competitive TCO advantages, especially in memory bandwidth, aligning with Anthropic's needs.
- Anthropic's deep involvement in Trainium's design positions it alongside Google DeepMind in benefiting from hardware-software co-design.
- AWS's underperformance is attributed to custom networking fabric EFA's limitations and lack of advanced software layers compared to competitors.
- The partnership between AWS and Anthropic is set to boost AWS's growth beyond 20% YoY by the end of 2025.
- Anthropic's aggressive investment in scaling laws and reinforcement learning roadmap is a bold bet on AWS's custom silicon.
- AWS's future growth hinges on securing more anchor customers like Anthropic and expanding its GenAI offerings, including Bedrock and internal LLM efforts.