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Reacting to the AWS re:Invent Keynote
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:43:43
Publish Date: 2024-12-11 06:00:00
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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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