Amazon Web Services (AWS) issued an internal directive in May ordering engineers to reduce wasted server resources. The mandate requires the elimination of underutilized and idle Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances to free up capacity.
Surging demand for AI workloads is currently straining both specialized chips and general-purpose CPUs. Internal reports indicate that obtaining new CPU server capacity now takes days instead of hours.
The efficiency drive aims to maximize existing infrastructure as cloud providers face global computing bottlenecks. AWS is prioritizing utilization to meet aggressive demand for computing power.