Social networking king Mark Zuckerberg slammed Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Amazon Web services (AWS) for its soaring costs in cloud computing and data storage.
Zuckerberg’s remarks came during his speech at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, his philanthropic organisation that organised a seminar on the challenges in scientific research.
During the live-streamed discussion, Zuckerberg said one of the new challenges with cutting-edge research and start-ups is the high cost of computing services.
The Facebook CEO noted that even while the cost of sequencing human DNA and its data generation has come down, their storage has become highly expensive as a barrier to analysing all the information.
Zuckerberg mentioned Amazon Web Services and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos while referring to the high costs in data storage infrastructure.
“One of the things we talk about is our cost of computing, and our AWS bill Let’s call up Jeff and talk about this”, he quipped while interacting chat with the research centre’s co-presidents, Dr. Joseph DeRisi and Dr Stephen Quake.
All the top cloud providers, including AWS and Google, are leveraging the big opportunity to sell into the biotech sector where genomics projects are growing.
The size of the human genome is more than six billion letters. It is such massive data that scientists find it hard to decipher in driving new treatments.
