The great memory shortage is having yet another effect, pushing enterprises into the waiting arms of the cloud operators as they can't secure enough on-prem compute themselves. Forget one chip to rule them all: With TPU 8, Google has an AI arms race to win READ MORE Or so claims AWS chief Andy Jassy, who says the memory supply situation is forcing many firms to bring forward plans they had to move resources to the cloud. "On memory and storage and the supply chain, I think everybody knows that the cost of components, particularly memory, has skyrocketed. We are in a stage where there is just not enough capacity for the amount of demand," Jassy said during an analyst call for the company's first quarter earnings on Wednesday. "One of the interesting things that we see right now with the change in price and supply on things like memory is that it is a further impetus pushing companies who have on-premises infrastructure into the cloud," he added.…