Overview
- Uber, which announced the expansion Tuesday, is moving more real-time Trip Serving Zone compute to AWS Graviton4 to reduce latency and power use.
- Trip Serving Zones are the backend systems that match riders with drivers and route deliveries in milliseconds during demand spikes.
- Uber has begun piloting AI training on AWS Trainium3 to improve driver or courier selection, arrival time estimates, and in-app recommendations.
- The Trainium work remains a test as Uber keeps a multi-cloud setup that includes Google Cloud and Oracle.
- For AWS, Uber’s deployment serves as a proof point as big customers weigh custom chips over general GPUs for price and performance.