2024 re:Invent recap
The annual AWS re:Invent conference seldom disappoints, and this year was no different. There were ton of releases, and a number that are definitely worth discussing in more detail. We'll do our best to go over some of the biggest announcements, with a variety of speakers (there were a few NoCo AWS Meetup attendees in Vegas).
Here's a summary from my friend Claude.ai that we may cover (the exact agenda is flexible, but I promise it'll be really interesting!)
- Amazon Nova Foundation Models: AWS is introducing its own family of foundation models, offering both text and multimodal capabilities with a focus on price-performance optimization. This puts AWS in direct competition with other major AI model providers and could potentially make advanced AI capabilities more accessible and cost-effective for businesses.
- Amazon Aurora DSQL (Preview): This new serverless distributed SQL database promises virtually unlimited scale and highest availability with zero infrastructure management. This could be particularly important for applications requiring extreme scalability and reliability.
- Amazon Q Developer Enhancements: The expansion of Amazon Q Developer's capabilities to include documentation generation, code reviews, unit testing, and operational issue investigation represents a significant step forward in AI-assisted software development. The integration with GitLab and ability to handle transformations for .NET, mainframe, and VMware workloads could substantially improve developer productivity.
- AWS Security Incident Response: This new service represents a major step forward in cloud security, offering automated triage and coordinated response to security incidents. In an era of increasing cyber threats, having automated, expert-guided incident response capabilities built into AWS services could be game-changing for many organizations' security postures.
Speaker Bios:
Speakers are TBD, but we'll have at least a subset of those who attended:
- Brian Zambrano (AWS)
- Viraj Padte (AWS)
- James Scott (NeuEon)
- Jeremy Turner (Matterport)
6:00 - 6:30 pm: Mix and mingle
6:30 - 6:40 pm: Announcements and intro
6:40 - 8:00 pm: Main talk
8:00+ pm: (Optional) Dinner/drinks at Ginger & Baker
