You may have missed everything announced at AWS re:Invent 2024
With AWS re:Invent underway, the company has already unveiled a slew of news, updates, upgrades, and other announcements.
Given everyone’s busy schedules, you may have missed some of the more niche or interesting announcements, but don’t worry, we’ve got your back.
To catch all the news and updates as they happen, follow our AWS re:Invent 2024 live blog for the latest news. Don’t worry, we’ll keep this piece up to date with anything else we come across. I don’t have time for a full article about it!
Amazon Nova is here
Our special guest on the first day’s keynote was a familiar face to AWS fans: former CEO and now Amazon boss Andy Jassy.
He unveiled Nova, a new family of base models that it hopes will put Amazon at the forefront of the AI arms race.
We covered the Canvas and Reel image and video generation models in our news story, but Nova is actually a four-tier model, now available on Amazon Bedrock.
The full line-up is Amazon NovaMicro (a very fast text-to-text model); And Amazon Nova Lite , Amazon NovaPro And Amazon Nova Premier (multimodal models that can process text, images and videos to generate text).
A new generation of SageMaker
Amazon’s analytics platform SageMaker has long been one of the company’s biggest success stories, receiving a host of upgrades during re:Invent 2024.
The CEO of AWS unveiled “a new generation of SageMaker,” which the company says will bring together the capabilities customers need for rapid SQL analysis, petabyte-scale big data processing, data exploration and integration, model development and training, and generative artificial intelligence in one integrated platform.
And also a place to experiment in SageMaker
Another part of this new generation was SageMaker Unified Studio – a new, single environment where you can access all your organization’s data and act on it in new ways.
Sage Maker Lakehouse
The last bit of the SageMaker triple-header was Sage Maker Lakehouse – a new way to simplify analytics and AI with an open, unified and secure data lake house, providing easy access to all your data.
Amazon Q for developers
AI is becoming an indispensable tool for developers everywhere, and Amazon Q for Developers is getting a host of new tools.
This includes generating end-to-end user testing, accurate documentation and code reviews – all this should greatly reduce the workload of developers.
Q Developer also receives transformation support for transforming .NET appsa great help in modernizing older Windows applications, quickly transforming apps from Windows to Linux.
There’s also a new elastic service, which moves VMware subscriptions to AWS, but also a new tool that makes this possible transforming VMware workloads to cloud-native architectures.
Amazon Q for businesses
Getting all the information you need from your business can be difficult, especially if you are a large organization with multiple data silos.
To make this less painful, AWS revealed Amazon Q Business Integration with Amazon QuickSightbringing together structured and unstructured data from their silos.
Amazon Q Business also now offers more than 50 new actions for some of the most popular third-party apps it uses, like creating a task in Asana or sending a private message in Teams. There’s even a new capability that uses agents to run complex workflows, allowing employees to automate both simple and complex tasks.
GitLab Partnership
A new launch aimed at helping developers – a new integrated offering that brings together GitLab Duo with Amazon Q.
The two companies say the launch will combine DevSecOps workflows with autonomous Amazon Q agents to help organizations deliver secure software faster, all providing a seamless, AI-powered developer experience.
