Event Report: AWS reInvents Itself for the Age of AI
R "Ray" Wang
Founder, Chairman, & Principal Analyst of Constellation Research | City of Cupertino Council Member | Co-Host of DisrupTV | Best-Selling Author | Keynote Speaker and Commentator on Disruptive Tech and AI
Matt Garman Has Positively Impacted AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosted over 70,000 attendees at its 13th annual reInvent conference in Las Vegas, Nevada on December 2nd to 6th, 2024. Since its humble beginnings in 2012 when there were 6,000 attendees, this event has been on the must-attend list for developer and innovation focused business and technology leaders. After losing three years of momentum, AWS finally found the right replacement for Andy Jassy with Matt Garman as the new AWS CEO. This year’s announcements showcase significant product investments that will provide a stronger roadmap of how AWS will support AI startups and enterprises moving fast into AI. Overall, announcements from reInvent reflect a deep customer understanding.
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On the enterprise tech event circuit, AWS reInvent is one of the Big 7 must attends for quality of networking, innovation announcements, and overall show quality.? The other six include Adobe Summit, Google Cloud Next, Nvidia GTC, Salesforce Dreamforce, ServiceNow Knowledge, and World Economic Forum. For this year’s reInvent, this analyst spent time speaking with over 50 C-Suite executives and identified five major technology buying trends for 2025:
The Bottom Line: Executives Mostly Have Positive Reactions To Their reInvent Experience
Select quotes from the event highlight the overall sentiment of C-suite level attendees:
“With time and volume, most my costs go down except with healthcare and cloud. AWS costs me way too much”, CFO, Fortune 500 manufacturer
“AWS finally got its act together on AI now that Matt is here”, CIO, Fortune 500 Healthcare organizations.
“The level of meetings have been helpful for furthering our IT strategy and mission. We now know how to build out our AI roadmap”, Enterprise Architect, Fortune 500 energy company.
“This event allows me to meet my entire AWS ecosystem from software vendors to global system integrators. I will be back next year”, CTO, Fortune 500 media and entertainment company.
“We will now move our SAP instance onto AWS knowing that there is a path for AI”, CIO, Fortune 500 BFSI
“The future is multi-agent orchestration and we will need collaborative agents”, Chief Product Officer, SaaS startup
“The billion dollar cloud credit for AI startups is the smartest thing Matt’s done. This is the sequel to the playbook for startups in the cloud “, CTO Global System Integrator.
"It's a good thing Matt's here, Adam's lack of understanding cost AWS a lead in AI", Founder, Fast-Growing AI startup.
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3 个月As always, wonderful analysis and reporting Ray! Thanks!!
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3 个月Great perspective, Ray, and I do agree the excitement is back after a short hiatus. Our focus this year at the conference was Private Equity and the intersection of cloud, data, and especially AI. Many share similar sentiments, particularly in the category of ‘retire technical debt / innovate faster,’ which is gaining some very valuable new capabilities with Modernization, Q, Bedrock, and more. Its going to be exciting to see what gets prioritized in '25!
Insightful as always. Thanks for joining us and sharing your perspective.
Ray. As always thank you for the insider view. Nicely done!
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3 个月Thank you for sharing R "Ray" Wang Ben Goertzel David Bray, PhD Sharon Gal-Or