From Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letter, December 2017: AWS – It’s exciting to see Amazon Web Services, a $20 billion revenue run rate business, accelerate its already healthy growth. AWS has also accelerated its pace of innovation – especially in new areas such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, and serverless computing.
In 2017, AWS announced more than 1,400 significant services and features, including Amazon SageMaker, which radically changes the accessibility and ease of use for everyday developers to build sophisticated machine learning models. Tens of thousands of customers are also using a broad range of AWS machine learning services, with active users increasing more than 250 percent in the last year, spurred by the broad adoption of Amazon SageMaker.
If you're working in an office, here are some of the checklist items that might have been omitted from the job description:
Add energy to every conversation
Ask why
Find obsolete things on your task list and remove them
Treat customers better than they expect
Offer to help co-workers before they ask
Feed the plants
Leave things more organized than you found them
Invent a moment of silliness
Highlight good work from your peers
Find other great employees to join the team
Cut costs
Help invent a new product or service that people really want
Get smarter at your job through training or books
Encourage curiosity
Surface and highlight difficult decisions
Figure out what didn't work
Start a club
Smile a lot.
Now that it's easier than ever to outsource a job to someone cheaper (or a robot) there needs to be a really good reason for someone to be in the office. Here's to finding several. (-Thanks again to Seth Godin.)
In 2017, AWS announced more than 1,400 significant services and features, including Amazon SageMaker, which radically changes the accessibility and ease of use for everyday developers to build sophisticated machine learning models. Tens of thousands of customers are also using a broad range of AWS machine learning services, with active users increasing more than 250 percent in the last year, spurred by the broad adoption of Amazon SageMaker.
