Aurora Self Driving Tech Gets AWS Cloud Backing
0Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Aurora (NASDAQ: AUR), a leader in self-driving vehicle technology, has selected AWS as its preferred #cloud provider for machine learning training and cloud-based simulation workloads. #aurora uses AWS's proven infrastructure and unparalleled portfolio of capabilities to safely accelerate the development of the #aurora Driver, its scalable self-driving vehicle technology. The #aurora Driver consists of sensors that perceive the world, software that plans a safe path through it, and a computer that powers and integrates Aurora's hardware and software with any vehicle platform. For its machine learning training and cloud-based simulation workloads, #aurora is all-in on AWS, and it uses the #cloud to process trillions of data points each day. Now, the company is scaling its training workloads in the #cloud to complete up to 12 million physics-based driving simulations per day by the end of the year, building on the petabytes of data it collects during real-world road tests.
Autonomous driving is an immensely complex technological challenge that relies heavily on #cloud computing to enable breakthroughs in perception, embedded computing, machine learning, motion planning, decision making, and advanced sensor technologies. With AWS's capabilities in high-performance computing, machine learning, storage, and security, #aurora optimizes and scales its virtual testing efforts to expand the capabilities of the #aurora Driver safely and quickly.
"Aurora's advanced machine learning and simulation at scale are foundational to developing our technology safely and quickly, and AWS delivers the high performance we need to maintain our progress," said Chris Urmson, CEO of #aurora. "With its virtually unlimited scale, AWS supports millions of virtual tests to validate the capabilities of the #aurora Driver so that it can safely navigate the countless edge cases of real-world driving."