Amazon Internet Providers’ (AWS) greatest convention of the 12 months is across the nook, and all indicators level to it being an eventful one. AWS re:Invent 2024 kicks off in Las Vegas on Sunday, with classes scheduled to run by way of December 6. A keynote tackle that includes AWS CEO Matt Garman will happen December 3, beginning at 8 a.m. PT sharp.
AWS plans to make a livestream of the keynote accessible on YouTube, and we’ll be protecting every thing that’s introduced onstage. Preserve your eyes peeled for that, in addition to for our tales popping up all through the course of re:Invent.
Notably, that is Garman’s first re:Invent as AWS’ CEO. His predecessor, Adam Selipsky, stepped down in Might after simply three years on the helm.
So what can we anticipate?
Garman should cope with a market notion that AWS continues to path Microsoft and Google within the generative AI race. AWS has launched a quantity of generative AI providers in latest months, and the corporate claims that its income from generative AI has reached “a number of billions” of {dollars}.
In one other win, AWS simply weeks in the past shored up its partnership with Anthropic by changing into the AI firm’s main mannequin coaching accomplice, and by agreeing to have Anthropic’s staff assist information its future AI chip design efforts.
However AWS has additionally confronted setbacks, just like the departure of prime AI exec Matt Wooden and delays of its flagship Olympus mannequin.
Garman will nearly actually discuss generative AI throughout his keynote. (The re:Invent catalog lists over 500 generative AI-related classes.) However he informed TechCrunch in October that re:Invent wouldn’t be “simply an AI convention” this 12 months.
“I feel we’re going to have improvements throughout the stack in compute and storage and databases and analytics and AI,” he stated in an interview. “It’s going to be throughout the entire stack of AWS.”
Anticipate a cameo from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy throughout Garman’s keynote, the theme of which Amazon reasonably bombastically describes as “highlighting how AWS is reinventing foundational constructing blocks in addition to creating new experiences to empower clients and companions with what they should construct a greater future.”
AWS VP Swami Sivasubramanian will give an AI- and data-focused presentation on new AWS providers on December 4 . And December 5, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels will dive deep into his tech predictions for the approaching 12 months — a longtime common fixture of re:Invent.
Sivasubramanian and Vogels’ speeches, like Garman’s, might be streamed on YouTube — and we’ll be protecting them proper right here on TechCrunch.
