On the 30th of November, the AWS re:invent, Amazon Web Services annual user conference. This year, the event is being held 100% remotely due to the pandemic.
Here at Flexa Cloud, as AWS partners in Brazil, we are following everything. And we decided to bring a special coverage of everything that was presented at the event.
Check it out below!
About AWS re:invent
AWS re:Invent is the annual Amazon Web Services user conference that focuses on cloud strategy and operations, security and developer productivity, IT architecture and infrastructure.
AWS re:Invent can also be described as a learning conference for the global cloud computing community.
The event features keynotes, announcements, training and certification opportunities, access to over 2.500 technical sessions, a partner exhibit, off-hours events and much more.
Usually, the conference takes place in different places in Las Vegas and receives more than 60.000 participants in a few days.
Of course, this year, the event takes place 100% virtual. Over three weeks, product launches, training and a series of lectures are offered — between November 30 and December 18.
AWS re:Invent is arguably the most important business conference in the industry due to Amazon's dominance in the public cloud market, massive ecosystem, and its tendency to launch dozens (hundreds) of products and highlight its roadmap for innovation. This year was no exception as AWS unveiled an impressive number of new products and services.
What's New in AWS re:invent 2020
New Amazon Web Services (AWS) products and services extend cloud tools and services to on-premises facilities, reduce the cost of machine learning operations, and create more storage options.
AWS CEO Andy Jassy announced 24 new features during his presentation on the first day of the event.
The news covered everything from customer service platforms and computer vision algorithms to machine learning operations and serverless deployments.
Jassy said the company has been focusing on listening to customers and coming up with more options for instances, containers and serverless deployments. Reducing costs is also always a priority, he said, so AWS engineers looked for ways to make common operations more cost-effective.
Jassy also pointed out that machine learning has been growing rapidly and many of the costs are related to inference, not necessarily training the data initially. He said cloud providers have not focused on reducing these costs.
“Alexa reduced its inference cost by 30% and lowered its latency by 25% using our Inf1 instances,” said the executive.
AWS is also working on reducing costs for training models with Amazon EC2 instances based on Habana Gaudi, which will be available in 2021. AWS Trainium is another option to reduce costs and will be available in the second half of 2021.
AWS re:invent 2020 special coverage
→ Click on the links below to see the series of articles with the news announced in AWS re:invent 2020!
- AWS re:invent 2020: top computing news presented at the event!
- AWS re:invent 2020: View Amazon QuickShight Details!
- AWS re:invent 2020: What's New in Machine Learning!
- AWS re:invent 2020: What's New in Databases, Containers, and Storage!
- AWS re:invent 2020: Discover what's new in Amazon Connect!
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