Technology
The Formula 1 championship is going on in full swing with some nail-biting edge-of-the-seat action race after race. While Max Verstappen, the defending champion from last year is still leading the pack, the fight for the title and the constructors’ championship is super tight and entertaining.
For the uninitiated, Formula 1® racing began in 1950 and is the world’s most prestigious motor racing competition as well as the world’s most popular annual sporting series. Currently, the FIA Formula One World Championship TM runs from March to December spanning 23 races in 20 countries across four continents. In recent years, the F1 experience has transformed significantly – for the teams, drivers, crew, analysts and stewards, and even audiences – both remote and on-site.
One of the key technologies that have helped bring about major changes and advances to Formula 1 racing is cloud computing. If you follow the sport, you already know that F1 racing uses Amazon Web Services or AWS cloud computing platform from Amazon for its functioning. Cloud transformation has been one of the goals on the tech side for Formula 1 and to accelerate cloud transformation, Formula 1 is moving the large majority of its infrastructure from its on-premise data centers to AWS. Another focus area for Formula 1 has been the standardization of AWS’ machine learning and data analytics services. Together, Formula 1 and AWS are working hand-in-hand to enhance race strategies, data tracking systems, as well as digital broadcasts using a range of services from the AWS bundle, such as Amazon SageMaker, AWS Lambda, AWS serverless computing, AWS analytics, etc.
According to AWS, by sourcing historical data and using it to teach Amazon SageMaker complex machine learning algorithms, Formula 1 can predict race strategy outcomes with increasing accuracy for teams, cars, as well as drivers.
We come to the end of this week’s episode of the Cognixia podcast. We hope you enjoyed listening to us. AWS is a powerful partner to have for any enterprise, no matter what industry they operate in. To power revolutions such as these, you need to have the right skills and expertise.