Dr. Werner Vogels, keynote speaker at re:Invent 2023, discusses the philosophy of building systems, the impact of AI, and new AWS features including zonal auto shift, Amazon CloudWatch application signals, My Applications capability, IDE extension for AWS application composer, integration of ISE templates, and efficiency and cost optimization in Amazon SageMaker.

Highlights from re:Invent Day 3 include discussions on Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Titan text models, Drop xCloud 2.1, Meadows Llama 70 Billion Parameter, Stable Diffusion Excel 1.0 image model, smart sifting with Amazon SageMaker, new features in Amazon SageMaker Canvas, Open Search Service, and MemoryDB for Redis, and updates from AWS including Vector Search in Amazon DocumentDB, AWS Cleanrooms ML, healthcare modeling in AWS Cleanrooms, Apache Iceberg support in Amazon Redshift, Neptune Analytics for graph data, and new AWS AI service cards.

AWS CEO Adam Selipsky's keynote at re:Invent 2023 included announcements like S3 Express one zone offering fast cloud object storage with low latency. Other highlights include new features and integrations on AWS, continued pre-training in bedrock, and the introduction of fully managed agents for generative AI applications. Guardrails for filtering harmful content and the introduction of Amazon Q, a generative AI-powered assistant, were also discussed.

It’s the most re:Invent time of the year! Simon guides you through the most exciting announcements from Peter DeSantis’ keynote, where he dives deep into the engineering that powers AWS services. PLUS Simon catches you up on 100 other announcements in just 30 minutes!!

Explore everything AWS re:Invent had to offer this November 27th through December 1st 2023! Join Simon Elisha and Jillian Forde as they share their tips to use your time efficiently and discover content that is most relevant to your interests wether you are in Las Vegas or joining remotely. Schedule your event using the session catalog found here: https://reinvent.awsevents.com/session-catalog/

AWS Podcast discusses updates and announcements in various AWS services, including Amazon Aurora, Redshift, and Glue Studio. They also cover improvements in application integration, Lambda, CodeBuild, and Amazon EKS Anywhere. Updates are provided on AWS services such as CodeBuild, Fault Injection Simulator, Resilience Hub, and Nice DCV. Migration and transfer updates include communication through network proxy and new replatforming feature. Security and storage updates cover GuardDuty, EBS snapshots, and upcoming reinvent series

Jillian Forde and Jake Siddall discuss Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML, a new service that allows customers to reserve GPU instances for machine learning workloads. They explore the benefits of capacity blocks, use cases, planning AI strategy, pricing dynamics, and optimizing compute capacity.

Jyoti Aggarwal, Product Management lead for Amazon Redshift zero-ETL, and Adam Levin, Principal Product Manager on the Amazon Aurora, discuss the benefits and challenges of zero-ETL integration between Amazon Aurora MySQL and Amazon Redshift. They highlight use cases, data sharing, materialized views, and central data governance. The integration allows for near real-time replication, easy monitoring, and recovery from failures. The process involves CDC-based replication and automatic copying of subsequent changes.

In this podcast, they cover 75 exciting updates across AWS Marketplace, analytics, application integration, blockchain, compute, databases, developer tools, end user computing, internet of things, machine learning, management & governance, media services, migration & transfer, and security, identity, & compliance.

Gopinath Sankaran, VP at Informatica, joins Jillian Forde to discuss generative AI's transformative power. They explore its varied applications across business operations and customer experience. They highlight the importance of a strong data foundation for generative AI, including data architecture, sources, quality, security, and governance. They provide tips for getting started with generative AI and share their experience in using it for data management processes.