Andy Jassy runs the world’s largest cloud computing business. He also just joined an NHL franchise ownership group trying to bring professional hockey to Seattle. So the new team operations and arena infrastructure will use Amazon Web Services technology, right? “I don’t think anyone has gone that far,” Jassy said. It’s too early to tell how Amazon will be involved in the potential NHL team playing at a proposed redeveloped KeyArena, just blocks away from the company’s headquarters in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. But Jassy is already jazzed to be apart of it all. GeekWire caught up with Jassy,… Read More
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Deeper stats, predicted pitches, and live commentary produced by robots in the voice of iconic announcers — it could all be coming to Major League Baseball broadcasts soon. MLB re-upped its partnership with Amazon Web Services on Tuesday. It will continue using machine learning and artificial intelligence to gather data and provide more information to fans. MLB and AWS, the cloud computing arm of Amazon that posted $5.4 billion in revenue last quarter, have worked together since 2014. Amazon helps power Statcast, the high-tech player tracking system that measures every play during a baseball game and produces stats like pitching velocity,… Read More
Baseball fans probably don’t think too much about cloud computing. But they are certainly being exposed to Amazon Web Services during this year’s World Series. If you’ve been tuning into this year’s Fall Classic between the Cubs and Indians — Game 7 is tonight in Cleveland — you may have noticed some branding for AWS, Amazon’s cloud computing arm. That’s because AWS powers the back-end of Statcast, a high-tech player tracking system used by MLB that measures every single play during a baseball game with radar equipment and HD optical cameras at each stadium. It produces new stats like pitching velocity, launch angles of… Read More
