Amazon announced a new service called AI Factories that lets large enterprises and governments run AWS AI workloads inside their own data centers. The offering combines Amazon’s cloud software stack with Nvidia hardware, allowing customers to choose between Nvidia’s latest Blackwell GPUs or Amazon’s Trainium3 chips. AI Factories are positioned as a solution for data‑sovereignty concerns, giving organizations full control over data and hardware while still accessing AWS services such as Bedrock and SageMaker. Similar private‑cloud moves are also being pursued by Microsoft. Read more →