HOW DOES NFL USE AWS ?
WHAT IS AWS?
Amazon Web Services is the subsidary of amazon which provides cloud computing platform to companies,goverment and individuals.AWS provide pay-as-you-go apporach for its services as according to your usage.AWS provide more than 175 full featured for a wide range of tecnologies,industries and use case.AWS also has the most secure ,reliable and substantial infrastructure.
WHY NFL CHOOSES AWS OVER OTHER CLOUD PLATFORMS?
As NFL(American Football) is a sports league so its requirements are 3D analysis of the game which can be acheived by machine learning.And in todays world machine learning is done on cloud and AWS provides the best resources and services for cloud computing.
The NFL now able to built more stats from game and players by using AWS and becuse of this fans envolment is also high.NFL use amazon SageMaker to calculate the path or route which players can choose or executes to score by passing the defenders ,how fast players are running and their impact if they collides,,sideline distance,3D analysis of any injury and many more.
HOW NFL IS ABLE TO COLLECT DATA?
- Captureing Of Data:- Data is captured by placing of RFID tags on players shoulder pads and game ball and this data is stored and use through AWD services like EC2,S3 and EMP.
- Analyzing Of It:-This data is now collected game by game and this data then use by machine learning models implemented by Amazon SageMaker to make output predictions.