SiliconANGLE article by Jason English
Attending AWS re:Invent 2024 was like watching a forest grow and decay at 10,000-times time-lapse speed. With each major breakthrough release falling, Amazon Web Services Inc. might crush a wide swath of products, including a few of its own, while sprouting even more new startups in its wake.
Just pick out any one announcement such as AWS Bedrock Data Automation — which could overshadow a few dozen intelligent document processing and business workflow solutions, at least in the view of AWS customers that aren’t already automating that kind of work.
Indeed, while AWS Bedrock was being infused as the new substrate for multiple artificial intelligence models, large language model, retrieval-augmented generation and so on that will someday run everything, the real progress will still be among vendors and enterprises making cloud infrastructure better support application innovation and operations. AI is just today’s bleeding edge, driving the advancement of scalable and interoperable cloud architectures, massive resilient and secure data infrastructures, and development tools and technologies that are ready for change.
“The ability to scale down cloud infrastructure is just as powerful as the ability to scale up, so we can focus our optimization where it needs to be,” said Ed Peters, vice president and distinguished engineer at Capital One Financial Corp., a company that famously started its journey to cloud with AWS way back in 2016.
Here are just a few of those disruptive AWS projects, partner vendors and startups I managed to catch up in Las Vegas:
Scalability and interoperability
A key takeaway — beyond the advances of speeds and feeds in silicon technology, clustering, storage tiers — was how AWS is striving for interoperability these days, in terms of more open-source involvement, integrations with other vendors, and tools to help companies get their arms around cost and complexity.
For me the newly announced “Buy with AWS” marketplace release represents a nice externalization of this massive ecosystem very well…
Read the whole event recap in SiliconANGLE here: https://siliconangle.com/2024/12/08/aws-reinvent-2024-ai-innovations-fall-across-markets/
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