Amazon Web Services unveiled a new studio within its parent company’s Arlington headquarters, where the cloud services arm said it will utilize its technology to address some of society’s biggest ills.
The AWS Innovation Studio, the first such installation for the massive division of Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), will provide its artificial intelligence, data science and machine learning tech to policy makers, agency and industry leaders, academics and others with the goal of finding new solutions for problems such as climate change, sustainability and education inequality.
“Customers are going to be able to collaborate with Amazon experts and find new ways to address some of the world’s most pressing societal issues,” Max Peterson, vice president of the AWS worldwide public sector unit, said during the company’s D.C. summit Tuesday.
The AWS Innovation Studio is currently providing both virtual and physical collaboration space, the latter in Amazon’s existing HQ2 buildings…
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