CEO Keynote with Matt Garman

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AWS re:Invent 2023 - Key Highlights

Introduction

  • Matt Garman, the CEO of AWS, welcomes the audience to the 13th Annual AWS re:Invent conference.
  • re:Invent is a learning conference dedicated to builders and developers, with almost 60,000 people attending in person and 400,000 watching online.
  • AWS has a strong focus on the developer community, with 600 user groups spanning 120 countries.
  • Startups have a special place in AWS, and the company will provide $1 billion in credits to startups globally in 2025.
  • Enterprises have also heavily adopted AWS, with the largest companies across all industries running on the cloud.

Building Blocks: Compute

  • AWS offers 850 different EC2 instance types across 126 families, allowing customers to find the exact right instance for their workloads.
  • Nitro, AWS's custom virtualization system, enables bare metal performance and security.
  • AWS has developed its own custom silicon, including Graviton processors, which offer 40% better price-performance and 60% less energy consumption than x86 instances.
  • Graviton is being widely adopted, with 90% of the top 1000 EC2 customers using it.
  • AWS is also launching new GPU-powered instances, the P6 family, to support generative AI workloads.

Building Blocks: Storage

  • S3 is AWS's highly scalable, durable, and secure object storage service, now storing over 400 trillion objects.
  • S3 Table Buckets and S3 Metadata are new capabilities that improve performance and make it easier to discover information about S3 data.

Building Blocks: Databases

  • AWS offers a wide range of purpose-built databases, including the fully managed relational database service, RDS, and the serverless, NoSQL DynamoDB.
  • Aurora is AWS's high-performance, MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database, with numerous innovations over the years.
  • Amazon Aurora DSQL is the next generation of Aurora, delivering virtually unlimited scale, strong consistency, and low latency across regions.
  • DynamoDB Global Tables now also offer multi-region strong consistency and low latency.

Building Blocks: Generative AI

  • Bedrock is AWS's platform for building and scaling generative AI applications, providing access to the latest models, data integration tools, and safety mechanisms.
  • Bedrock features new capabilities like Model Distillation, Knowledge Bases, Guardrails, and Automated Reasoning checks to help customers build reliable and responsible generative AI applications.
  • Bedrock Agents enable the creation of complex, multi-agent workflows that can execute tasks across a company's systems and data.

Developer Productivity

  • Q Developer is AWS's generative AI assistant for software developers, helping with tasks like unit test generation, documentation, and code reviews.
  • Q Developer is also gaining new capabilities to automate Java version upgrades and Windows/.NET application modernization.

Analytics and AI

  • AWS offers a wide range of analytics services, including Redshift, EMR, OpenSearch, and Glue.
  • SageMaker is being expanded into a unified platform for data, analytics, and AI, integrating capabilities from various AWS services.
  • The new SageMaker Unified Studio provides a single development environment for analysts, data scientists, and ML experts to collaborate.
  • SageMaker Lakehouse enables unified access to data across various sources, including third-party SaaS applications.

Conclusion

  • AWS is continuously innovating to provide the best building blocks for developers and businesses to build whatever they can imagine.
  • The company is excited about the future of generative AI and is committed to making it accessible and responsible through platforms like Bedrock.
  • AWS encourages all attendees to take advantage of re:Invent to learn from the passionate AWS community.

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