Re:Invent is the biggest AWS event and one of the most significant tech events in the cloud world.
This blog is about my personal experience attending the event, so please don’t expect a technical blog. Of course, I will highlight some announcements, but the most important thing to me is to share with you why you should participate in this event in the future.
I made a YouTube video a couple of months ago to help you understand this event's importance and magnitude.
In less than 5 minutes of this video, I’ll speak about (or you can read it here):
- Event itself
- Highlight the announcements
- AWS Community
- Reasons to participate
Big Numbers
AWS re:Invent usually happens in Las Vegas. And generally, in the last week of November.
In 2023, the event occurred between Nov 27 and Dec 1 and attracted more than 50,000 people from all over the world. That’s amazing.
Over 2900 technical sessions in 6 different venues, what makes you walk a lot. Sessions are at various levels, from beginners to advanced sessions, chalk talks, breakout sessions, keynotes, workshops, and so much more.
Every year, this event brings a lot of news in the world of cloud, and let’s look at some of the most exciting announcements.
Highlight Announcements
- AWS launched Amazon Q, an assistant using generative AI specifically for work. You can use it in your account to ask best practices and other questions, for example. And obviously, I’ll make a video about it, showing how it works! If you want to know when I post a new video like that, subscribe to my YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/PenaRocks).
- Next-generation AWS-designed chips, Graviton4 and Trainium2, will make the workloads and genAI applications run faster, more efficient, and less expensive.
- Announcements for Bedrock: if you are a Bedrock enthusiast, now Bedrock has new powerful capabilities that empower customers to customize models. With the expanded choice of models, customers now have more models to build and scale generative AI applications.
- As expected, the event brought a lot of things for AI. Consequently, the innovations for Amazon SageMaker, with five new capabilities, will make it easier to build, train, and deploy new AI models.
- Amazon S3 Express One Zone. A new storage class for S3, designed for running applications that require extremely fast data access.
(Of course, I took a photo with the new S3 storage class)
Besides that, it has many more announcements, for example, for Serverless, Compute, Data, and other areas.
Here is the link with top announcements where you can navigate by area and better understand each of these new announcements: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/top-announcements-of-aws-reinvent-2023/
Besides that, you can watch the keynotes and a lot of sessions of the re:Invent on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/AmazonWebServices
AWS Community
One of the best reasons to attend this event is the possibility of connecting with many people in the world of cloud, professionals, AWS leaders, and people from different programs in the AWS, like AWS Heros, Ambassadors, and community builders.
AWS has a fantastic community, and it offers the opportunity to make new friends, share ideas, and learn much more from these experienced guys; it is also a chance to stay connected, meet new customers, gain new insights, and so much more.
Of course, that’s not just business or technical stuff. You have so much fun with the community!
I will speak better and explain the AWS Community Builders Program in my next blog and video. Stay tuned!
My experience with the community has been unique! I met new people, I made new friends, and I connected with many people from different parts of the world; that was a fantastic experience.
I hardly recommend staying connected with your community, with the User Groups, Community Builders, Heros, and Ambassadors. It worths! Believe me.
Reason to participate in the event
Let’s summarize the reasons to attend this event, and if I could choose five top reasons, that would be:
- Stay updated with new launches. You can do it online, but you will have a better experience in person.
- Hands-on workshops: the possibility to learn more and try new services.
- Exclusive sessions: talks and discussions that are not available online.
- Connect with AWS Community: AWS Heros, Ambassadors, User Group Leaders, and community builders.
- Expand your network: Meet new customers, meet the experts, create new connections and new friends, and learn and share your experience. That is one of the most valuable reasons to me personally.
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