The 2024 AWS re:Invent happened, with a new CEO, and an appearance by a previous CEO. What were the big announcements, trends and stories coming out of the keynote?
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Overall Takeaways:
- The new CEO
- The overall themes
- Andy Jassy’s appearance
Brian’s Top 5 Takeaways:
- The focus is now all ARM and GPUs/AI Accelerators (goodbye Intel)
- AWS is getting back to basics on Cloud - a focus on primitives
- AWS is trying to get ahead of startup and enterprise usage of GenAI with a focus on Inferencing costs (trying to make it a game of compute costs vs. model capabilities)
- What are the 1000 GenAI apps that Amazon has built? (Rufus, Robot package loading? NFL Blitz predictor?
Brandon’s Top 5 Takeaways:
- Amazon is the “Everything Store,” AWS is the “Every Service Store”
- Garmon is the legacy AWS CEO, Jassy is the AWS AI CEO
- AWS wants everyone to build a chatbot and/or call center app using AWS Bedrock
- The NOVA foundation models are the AWS answer to OpenAI and Anthroptic.
- AWS is attempting to build both the models and the AI Chips to run them. Tenuous partnerships with Nvidia and Anthropic. Neither was on stage.
- AWS will never stop telling us about “Working Backwards”
- AWS marketing still wants talk about the how rather than the benefit. A long lecture on Nitro and Amazon Aurora DSQL with a lot of discussion about synchronizing clocks.
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