How AWS Shapes the World Around Us

In Today’s Cloudbites:

📡 The Role of AWS in Our Everyday Life

🌍 How AWS Shapes the World Around Us

☁️ Online Cloud Events to Look Forward to

🤖 PLUS: ChatGPT’s new AI feature can now do deep research for you

Read time: 5 minutes

Hi friends, welcome back to Cloudbites

In this newsletter, I’ll be sharing how AWS plays an important role in most of the technologies we use everyday, often without us even realizing it. I’ll also share a new ChatGPT feature that improves the way you research.

CLOUD COMPUTING ☁️

 📡 The Role of AWS in Our Everyday Life

Have you ever wondered how your favorite applications and services work so smoothly?

After a long day, you might just want to binge watch a show on Netflix, or play your favorite songs on Spotify.

Now, imagine how annoying it would be if all of that suddenly stopped working. Shows start to buffer endlessly, and music will take forever to load.

The truth is, AWS (and other cloud providers) is behind all of this.

That’s how important AWS is to our daily lives. Companies rely on AWS because it’s fast, secure, and can handle large amounts of data. 

It ensures that everything from streaming your favorite shows to running space missions works smoothly.

🌍 How AWS Shapes the World Around Us

Let’s take a look at some real-life examples to see how AWS helps power the services we use every day.

#1 Netflix:

Netflix runs almost entirely on AWS. Netflix depends on AWS for:

• Instant Playback: AWS stores copies of your favorite shows closer to you, so there’s no buffering.
  

• Handling Traffic Spikes: When a new season drops, AWS quickly adds more servers to handle millions of viewers.
  

• Smart Recommendations: AWS analyzes your watch history to suggest what to watch next.

#2 Spotify:

Spotify can deliver millions of songs to users worldwide, all with the help of AWS. 

• Zero Lag Streaming: AWS’s cloud storage allows songs to be retrieved in milliseconds.
  

• Smart Playlists: AWS's AI can recommend personalized playlists for you as per your music taste.
  

• Uninterrupted Listening: Even if millions of users are streaming at once, AWS keeps Spotify running smoothly.

#3 NASA:

You might be surprised to know that even NASA relies on AWS! With AWS, NASA can:

• Process Space Data: AWS stores and analyzes massive amounts of images and videos from satellites.
  

• Run Complex Simulations: AWS lets scientists test and plan missions using virtual models instead of real spacecraft.
  

• Share Discoveries with the World: Researchers everywhere can access NASA’s data to study space more easily.

☁️ Online Cloud Events to Look Forward to

#1 Virtual Training: Create Apps and Automations with Power Platform (Feb 10, 2025)

This session offered by Microsoft will teach how to build apps and automate workflows with easy to use tools.

Click here to register.

#2 Exploring the Data & AI Landscape (Feb 20, 2025)

This webinar offered by Google will explore the evolving data & AI landscape, addressing industry trends and challenges.

Click here to register.

#3 AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials (Feb 10, 2025)

This event helps business leaders and IT professionals see the benefits of AWS Cloud. You'll get a clear and practical understanding of how the cloud works.

Click here to register.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) 🤖

 🤖 PLUS: ChatGPT’s new AI Feature can now do Deep Research for You

ChatGPT just got a whole lot smarter with its new 'deep research' feature. Here’s what you should know about Deep Research: 

• It can autonomously search for information
  

• Every research summary includes citations for credibility
  

• Complex questions can be tackled using multiple formats like text, images, and documents

This feature is currently available to Pro users for $200/month and can take up to 30 minutes to generate a response.

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