What is AWS? Why Every Data Science Professional Should Learn Amazon Web Services
Overview
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading cloud platform for deploying machine learning solutions
- Every data science professional should learn how AWS works
Introduction
“Your machine ran out of memory.”
Sounds familiar? It certainly is for me – especially anytime I try to run a complex machine learning algorithm on my personal machine. It’s quite a frustrating experience that a lot of data science professionals feel. We don’t have the unlimited computing power of the tech behemoths – so what should we do?
This is where the power of the cloud has transformed data science. And Amazon, with its AWS offering, has conquered the data science market like nothing before.
Cloud computing has seen tremendous growth in the past few years. Almost every organization nowadays uses cloud computing for its wide range of services. 70% of all the money spent on tech is expected to go into cloud services by the end of 2020.
Did you know that AWS’s revenue in the first quarter of 2020 was $10 billion? That’s almost twice as