AWS shares 11 key announcements from re:Invent 2023

Amazon Q is a new type of generative AI assistant specifically for work. It can be tailored to your business and is with security and privacy in mind. Learn more.

AWS Graviton4 and AWS Trainium2 will make running generative AI, and other workloads faster, less expensive, and more energy efficient. Learn more.

In October, we announced the general availability of Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed AWS service that makes large language models and other foundation models (FMs) from leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies, including AI21, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, and Stability AI, available through a single API. New capabilities for Amazon Bedrock empower customers to customise models, enable generative AI applications to execute multistep tasks, and build safeguards into their applications. Learn more.

With Amazon Bedrock, customers can drive rapid innovation with the latest versions of foundation models. Customers have even more choice of models to build and scale generative AI applications. This includes additions from Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, and Stability AI, as well as new models in the Amazon Titan family. Learn more.

Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service that brings together a broad set of tools to enable high-performance, low-cost machine learning for any use case. Five new capabilities will make it even easier for customers to build, train, and deploy models for generative AI. Learn more.

Generative AI assistant Amazon Q in Connect helps customer service agents respond even faster to customer requests by assisting agents with proposed responses, suggested actions, and links to relevant articles. Learn more.

How Amazon continues to improve the customer reviews experience with generative AI

New AI-generated customer review highlights are the latest in a string of review innovations.

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Three new AWS serverless innovations for Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon ElastiCache build on the work AWS has been doing ever since the first service, Amazon S3: Amazon Simple Storage Service, was launched. The new offerings are aimed to help customers analyse and manage data at any scale, while dramatically simplifying their operations. Learn more.

How AI helps footy fans grab a pie in less time than a goal break

Marvel Stadium in Melbourne becomes the Southern Hemisphere’s first stadium to use Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology to eliminate checkout lines, so fans can grab refreshments and get back to the game faster.

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Building on the launch of AWS Supply Chain, four new capabilities for the service include helping customers with forecasting, replenishing products to reduce inventory costs and respond more quickly to demand, and streamlining communication with suppliers. Learn more.

The new palm recognition identity service enables organisations to give employees and other authorised users fast, convenient, and contactless access to physical locations, such as offices, data centres, hotels, resorts, and educational institutions, simply by scanning the palm of their hand. Learn more.

Amazon S3 is one of the most popular cloud object storage services, holding more than 350 trillion “objects,” or pieces of data, and averaging more than 100 million requests for data a second. Amazon S3 Express One Zone is a new purpose-built storage class for running applications that require extremely fast data access, to achieve the highest possible efficiency. Learn more.

Introducing AWS Cloud Institute, a virtual program that trains you to become a cloud developer in as little as one year

In 1977, an engineering company was founded in Sydney with the belief that one day, computing technology would change the face of Australia.

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Traditionally, if you wanted to connect all your data sources to discover new insights, you’d need to “extract, transform, and load” (ETL) information in a tedious manual effort. These new integrations are part of our investment in a “zero ETL future,” where you can easily get your data where you need it. Learn more.

Review announcements and updates from re:Invent 2023 in detail.

Watch the re:Invent 2023 keynotes:

• Adam Selipsky, AWS CEO
• Peter DeSantis, Senior Vice President of AWS Utility Computing
• Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian, AWS Vice President of Data and AI
• Dr. Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO