Guide to AWS re:Invent 2024 (original) (raw)

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Editor's note

Thousands of IT professionals, business leaders and tech enthusiasts made their way to Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent. The 13th annual conference -- which took place from Dec. 2 to 6 -- gave users a front seat to the latest cloud technologies and AWS innovations.

There were more than 2,500 sessions for all skill levels, covering a plethora of topics, such as generative AI, cost optimization, data protection and cloud operations. Keynotes, innovation talks, certification and training opportunities, technical sessions and social events were also on tap. For those who couldn't attend in person, there were livestream keynotes and innovation talks, with more content available on demand.

Below, get important news and analysis from AWS re:Invent 2024, as well as expert advice on AWS infrastructure, security and cloud tools.

1AWS re:Invent news for AI and ML

AI and machine learning technologies remain a hot topic in the IT world, especially generative AI. Discover the latest features within the cloud provider's machine learning platform, Amazon SageMaker and other AI offerings.

• Article AI takeaways from AWS re:Invent 2024 An industry analyst shares his insights from AWS re:Invent 2024, where Amazon announced new tools and models to tackle enterprise generative AI challenges. Read Now
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• Article AWS on using GenAI to speed up legacy VMware and Microsoft datacentre migrations At AWS Re:Invent 2024, CEO Matt Garman shared details of how its GenAI technologies are helping enterprises accelerate the pace of Microsoft and VMware datacentre migrations Read Now
• Article AWS intros new foundation model line and tools for Bedrock The cloud provider launched Nova, a new family of generative AI models available on Amazon Bedrock. It also tackled some problems with generative AI, such as hallucinations. Read Now
• Blog Amazon SageMaker, knows its onions Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) used AWS re:Invent 2024 to announce its next generation of Amazon SageMaker. Read Now
• Article AWS on using GenAI to speed up legacy VMware and Microsoft datacentre migrations At AWS Re:Invent 2024, CEO Matt Garman shared details of how its GenAI technologies are helping enterprises accelerate the pace of Microsoft and VMware datacentre migrations Read Now
• Blog AWS re:Invent 2024: A ‘critical inflexion point’ for AI, data Swami Sivasubramanian, in his role as VP for AI and data at AWS, had some big messages to share on where we are today with AI. Read Now
• Article AWS unveils new generative AI models The Amazon Nova family of GenAI models boasts faster speeds and lower costs, and caters to needs from text and image generation to video creation and multimodal applications Read Now
• Article AWS doubles down on ASEAN with cloud and AI investments The cloud giant is fuelling growth in Southeast Asia with new infrastructure, skills development programmes and a focus on generative AI, empowering startups and enterprises alike Read Now
• Article AWS adds to Amazon Q in Connect, AI IVR, chat credit card AWS drops a big re:Invent update for Amazon Connect, including basic marketing functionality from the contact center side of CX. Read Now

2AWS re:Invent news for data management

AWS continues to grow its cloud data capabilities. Find out what's new in the data management, storage, analytics, integration and security space.

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• Article AWS reimagines SageMaker as suite for data, analytics, AI The service is now a unified platform featuring a data catalog, lakehouse and integrations with other AWS platforms. Read Now
• Article Amazon S3 adds new capabilities for data lakes The cloud object storage standard gains capabilities at re:Invent, including metadata generation and a managed table service. Read Now
• Article AWS launches automated service for incident response AWS Security Incident Response, which launched ahead of the re:Invent 2024 conference this week, can automatically triage and remediate events detected in Amazon GuardDuty. Read Now

3Prep for the conference

Before this year's conference starts, catch up on AWS updates from the last six months.

• Article A preview of the AWS re:Invent 2024 agenda With AWS re:Invent 2024 offering in-person and virtual options this year, attendees can choose from a range of interactive session types. Read Now
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• Article AWS to offer native VMware service with license portability AWS and Broadcom partner again to offer a new, native service within Amazon Virtual Private Cloud using existing VMware Cloud Foundation licenses. Read Now
• Article Amazon invests additional $4 billion in Anthropic The cloud provider will be the primary training partner for the generative AI vendor. The LLM maker will also train all its models on Trainium and Inferentia. Read Now
• Article AWS joins Microsoft, Google Cloud in offering Oracle database AWS joined Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud in offering the Oracle Database, an indication that enterprises want to use Oracle alongside the cloud providers' AI services. Read Now