AWS re:Invent 2024: Analytics innovation and accelerated AI

Gary Arora breaks down the top three highlights at AWS re:Invent 2024

AWS re:Invent 2024 is a wrap! In this episode, Gary Arora shares his top three highlights from this year’s incredible event. Innovations include Amazon S3 updates with managed Iceberg tables and real-time metadata; the cutting-edge Trainium2 AI chips; and AWS Nova, a multimodal foundational model for generating text, image, and video. From faster analytics to trailblazing AI performance, these innovative offerings are setting new standards for digital transformation technology.

Apple joined the stage at AWS re:Invent to reveal how they are using Trainium1 for services like search and achieving a 40% boost in performance. And with Trainium2, Apple is exploring pre-training new models to build Apple intelligence.

Gary is a chief architect at Deloitte Consulting LLP and leads technology-centric disruption for Fortune-500 organizations, with a specific focus on innovation and business strategy. His expertise lies in building high-performing teams and driving large-scale digital transformations, encompassing modern software engineering, cloud native architecture, data platforms, and Generative AI.

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