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CEO, Amazon Web Services · Feb 11, 2026 · Statement, AWS CEO calls AI inference a new building block (Acquired podcast)

We build these building blocks, we give this technology, and then we let the world have the creativity to go find some really cool things.

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Matt Garman, CEO, Amazon Web Services
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AWS CEO calls AI inference a new building block (Acquired podcast)
Topics
Cloud, Platform-shift
Company
AWS
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aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-ceo-ai-inference-transforms-developer-capabilities

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