Databricks partners with AWS to enhance AI on Mosaic platform

Databricks has announced a strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to advance the development of custom models using Databricks Mosaic AI on AWS.

Part of the agreement involves Databricks utilising AWS Trainium chips to power the Mosaic AI model training and serving capabilities on AWS. This partnership aims to enhance integrations for Databricks on AWS Marketplace. The collaboration will enable joint customers to build, deploy, and monitor high-quality, customised AI applications without losing control over their data or intellectual property.

Ali Ghodsi, Co-founder and CEO at Databricks, noted, "Generative AI is disrupting every industry and a company's data will ultimately be its competitive advantage. Strengthening our collaboration with AWS allows us to provide customers with unmatched scale and price-performance so they can bring their own generative AI applications to market more rapidly."

This development builds on Databricks' expanded Mosaic AI capabilities, including Mosaic AI Model Serving, which supports a variety of model providers through Amazon Bedrock. By using AWS Trainium chips, customers can scale model training at low cost. Matt Garman, CEO of AWS, commented, "Our collaboration with Databricks unlocks the potential for customers to drive real value from their data using generative AI. By using AWS Trainium to power Mosaic AI, Databricks will make it cost-effective for customers to build and deploy generative AI applications on top of their analytics workflows, regardless of their industry or use case."

The agreement also builds on the existing relationship between Databricks and AWS, a partnership that has already seen Databricks surpass a USD $1 billion run rate on AWS Marketplace, with significant growth in total contract value over the last two years. The collaboration includes multiple joint initiatives aimed at enhancing product capabilities and customer support, such as custom model optimisation, enhanced security, migration and modernisation for generative AI, tailored industry solutions, and improved ease of use through new integrations on AWS Marketplace.

Databricks and AWS are also committed to expanding their co-marketing initiatives, which include strategic joint marketing programmes and co-branded technical resources, alongside efforts to enhance the customer experience through developer-focused events.

Stuart Wright, CTO of SEGA Europe, expressed enthusiasm about the partnership, stating, "At SEGA, our goal is to deliver a personalised gaming experience that keeps our millions of customers coming back for more. To do this, we knew we needed a unified data platform that could both handle and harness our data to help us turn insights into new features our customers will love. The collaboration between AWS and Databricks gives us the model choice, scalability, security and price-performance we need to build a better gaming experience, improve brand loyalty and grow our community."

The Databricks Data Intelligence Platform has received FedRAMP High Agency Authority to Operate for its cloud services on AWS GovCloud, further demonstrating its commitment to providing secure and reliable services to its customers.