Alena Sanderson

left-handed pitcher @ketchumpr | graduated @cronkite_asu

[Alena Sanderson @AlenaSanderson]

From the late Walter Cronkite to a PR executive... I’ve never been prouder of my alma mater! @Cronkite_ASU 🥰 https://t.co/px28Cx4zfU

[Alena Sanderson @AlenaSanderson]

If you're at SXSW next week, drop by our lounge for a little pick-me-up!

[Andy Jassy @ajassy]

Several years ago, when we started pursuing building our own chips, a lot of folks thought this was nuts. We heard a lot of the same refrains you often hear—why make this investment, why invest in a team and all the other fixed costs to develop your own chip when you can buy from other suppliers? And, while we knew we’d partner with those other companies for the foreseeable future, if your customers are telling you they’re thirsty for better price-performance, and you’re driven by what makes customers’ lives better and easier every day, you explore options to make it so.

We realized pretty quickly that designing our own chips was going to be the best path to delivering this value for customers. We were lucky to find and join forces with the amazing Annapurna Labs team, who started with a chip (named Nitro) that offloaded security, networking, and some other virtualization functions from our servers so customers could use more of the server than they could before. Then, that team built a generalized CPU chip, Graviton, which has been very popular and impactful for customers, before embarking on building custom AI chips—Trainium (for training) and Inferentia (for inference)—which are also off to a strong start.

Am very excited about our most recent chip releases at AWS re: Invent: Graviton4 and Trainium2. Graviton4 marks the fourth generation we’ve delivered in just five years (you can see the evolution from left to right in the image below), and it’s the most powerful and energy efficient multipurpose chip we have built to date. And with the surge of interest in generative AI, Trainium2 will help customers train their ML models faster, at a more advantaged price-performance. I’m really proud of the pace of innovation our teams are delivering on and what it is making possible for customers! https://t.co/yxP2Cotz8D

[Alena Sanderson @AlenaSanderson]

@sharongoldman @VentureBeat Anytime! On standby for the deets

[andy b. @andybowers_]

Every social media manager rn.

[toddbishop @toddbishop]

This undulating light installation in the keynote entry hall at #reMARS was quite a spectacle, going through a variety of sequences. Created especially for the event, it was the brainchild of Hiro Seki, @awscloud senior art director.

[Alena Sanderson @AlenaSanderson]

@SophiaKunthara those covering this should have to disclose whether they've gotten a speeding ticket

[Alena Sanderson @AlenaSanderson]

@KyleAlspach @protocol Nice!

[Lil Uzi Hurt 🥺 @lostblackboy]

I once had a job where, every few weeks, a star reporter or editor would give a presentation about the biggest fuck up of their career and how they overcame it, and I think more organizations should do this. Normalize learning from failure.

[Alena Sanderson @AlenaSanderson]

Some ransomware gangs are rebranding nearly every year to avoid being caught by law enforcement, e.g. REvil 😱

[IBM News @IBMNews]

BREAKING: IBM Security X-Force Threat Intelligence Index maps new cybersecurity trends and attack patterns analyzed from billions of data points, illustrating how threat actors adopted tactics to infiltrate organizations worldwide. Here’s what we saw: https://t.co/TIxgVk2Spj

[Kyle Alspach @KyleAlspach]

CrowdStrike survey says Microsoft customers ‘losing trust’; Microsoft calls report ‘self-serving’ https://t.co/jvdQk6PShB $MSFT #security $CRWD

[PRSA SF Bay Area @PRSASF]

Thanks again to everyone who joined us Thursday for our Foggies Award Ceremony! Check our Facebook page for the full photo album. And BIG congrats to our winners!

Photo credit: Paul Sakuma

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

developing: it's a bones day https://t.co/zPVrLJM8eK

[Alena Sanderson @AlenaSanderson]

The struggle between having work to do Monday morning but wanting to read all the Facebook tea

[Alena Sanderson @AlenaSanderson]

Absolutely devastated that my birthday is coming up and there’s no way to subtly hint that to my colleagues in this weird remote work world

[yedoye @yedoye_]

new york really said it's too hot to use AC, something something corporate deflection to personal responsibility

[L @dreamsaster]

Good morning MAD MEN mutuals! It’s Tuesday, June 1st and today is the ONLY day you can retweet this.

[Tom @tomsnyds]

Me 30 seconds after joining a Zoom when no one else has joined

[Greg Gallant @GallantGreg]

Quarantine is ending!
We can do stuff again!