AWS re:Invent 2019 has come and gone this week past. As vast an experience as ever, with sessions, workshops, keynotes, fairs, expos and other events over an action packed five days, stretching the length of Las Vegas Boulevard. In total there were over 70 new products and features launched during this time, and many more if you include online launches in the fortnight running up to re:Invent (aptly named pre:Invent by Ian Harris, one of our travelling cadre).
The announcements this year are clearly about the evolution of AWS, rather than the next revolutionary offerings that many previous re:Invent conferences have held aloft (think Lambda and the Machine Learning announcements of 2017 for example). New features are from often desired wishlists, enhancements have been to make things work more smoothly, more cost effectively and to cement the market leading position of AWS.
As long-term partners of AWS, with over 300 accreditations and 60+ delivered solutions spanning a wide range of AWS services, BJSS sent a small delegation of opinionated technologists along for the ride. Over dinners, lunches and frankly any opportunity offered, we energetically discussed these evolutions, distilling a selection of our opinions into the views below.
We’ve grouped these into a few major themes that we feel AWS threaded throughout re:Invent and will likely be focusing heavily on for the year ahead.