AWS Re:Invent 2024 Keynote - Highlights for releases
Quick notes from the keynote, capturing the major announcements that showcase AWS's bold steps in cloud innovation
Nitin Eusebius
Amazon Employee
Published Dec 3, 2024
Last Modified Dec 4, 2024
What an exciting keynote at AWS re:Invent 2024! I wanted to quickly share my notes from Matt Garman's powerful keynote presentation, where we also heard inspiring stories from AWS customers and partners, topped off with Andy Jassy's compelling vision for Amazon's future. The energy in the room was electric as each announcement unfolded.
Here are my quick notes from the keynote, capturing the major announcements that showcase AWS's bold steps in cloud innovation
- [Credits] 1B investment in credits for startups
- [Compute] EC2 P6 instances
- [Compute] GA for Trn 2 - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/12/amazon-ec2-trn2-instances-available/
- [Compute] EC2 Trn2 ultra server - connects 4 Trn2 servers, overt 83 FP8 Peta Flops, more support to run your LLMs
- [Compute] Trn 3 coming later 2025. 2x more compute than Trn2
- [Storage] S3 table buckets - For Apache Iceberg tables - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/12/amazon-s3-tables-apache-iceberg-tables-analytics-workloads/
- [Storage] S3 metadata - discover info about your metadata, take metadata and easily query and in near real time. Automatically store all metadata in S3 table buckets and now find it, as objects changes, it will automatically updates it - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/12/amazon-s3-metadata-preview/
- [Database] Amazon Aurora D SQL - Fastest Distributed SQL, PostgreSQL compatible - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/12/amazon-aurora-dsql-preview/
- [Database] Amazon DynamoDB Global tables strong consistency in multi region - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/12/amazon-dynamodb-global-tables-previews-multi-region-strong-consistency/
- [Generative AI] Model Distillations in Amazon Bedrock. Anthropic, Meta and Amazon Model - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/12/amazon-bedrock-model-distillation-preview/
- [Generative AI] Amazon Bedrock automated reasoning checks , based on sound mathematical verifications - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/12/amazon-bedrock-guardrails-automated-reasoning-checks-preview/
- [Generative AI] Bedrock Agent support for multi-agent collaboration , orchestrate agents without using complex coding - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/12/amazon-bedrock-multi-agent-collaboration/
- [Generative AI] Amazon Nova (Micro - Text only model, Lite (GA) , Premier (Q1 2025) and Ultra (GA) - Multi-Modal including video). Speech to Speech (coming soon), Any to Any (Mid Year) - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/12/amazon-nova-foundation-models-bedrock/
- [Generative AI] Amazon Nova Canvas - Text 2 Image, edit images, responsible use of AI, content moderation - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/12/amazon-nova-foundation-models-bedrock/
- [Generative AI] Amazon Nova Reel - text to video, full control of camera, ai control for safe ai, content moderaton, 6 sec video to 2 mins video in next few months - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/12/amazon-nova-foundation-models-bedrock/
- [Generative AI] Amazon Q Developer autonomous agents which covers Unit test, documentation and code reviews - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/12/amazon-q-developer-automate-code-reviews/
- [Generative AI] Amazon Q Developer and GitLab integration
- [Generative AI] Amazon Q Developer transformation for .NET applications modernization from Windows to Linux - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/12/amazon-q-developer-transformation-net-porting-preview/
- [Generative AI] Amazon Q Developer Transformation for VMWare workloads to cloud native solutions
- [Generative AI] Amazon Q Developer transformation for Mainframe
- [Generative AI] Investigate issues across your AWS environment - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/12/amazon-q-developer-operational-investigation-preview/
- [Generative BI] Quicksight Q and Amazon Q Biz data
- [Generative BI] ISV can access new set of API to access Amazon Q biz index
- [Generative BI] Amazon Q automate, advance agents to create workflows example auto claim workflow . Coming soon.
You can get more details on each of these announcements in more details by visiting https://aws.amazon.com/new/. Also checkout AWS blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/ where many demos, tutorials, best practices and architectures would be available.
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