AWS re:Invent — Why should you attend? | My personal experience
Tags: cloud, aws, reinvent, cloudcomputing
Published: 2024-03-06 17:51:06

**Re:Invent** is the biggest AWS event and one of the most significant tech events in the cloud world.

This blog is about my personal experience attending the event, so please don’t expect a technical blog. Of course, I will highlight some announcements, but the most important thing to me is to share with you why you should participate in this event in the future.

I made a **YouTube video** a couple of months ago to help you understand this event's importance and magnitude.

In less than 5 minutes of this video, I’ll speak about (or you can read it here):

- Event itself
- Highlight the announcements
- AWS Community
- Reasons to participate

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## Big Numbers
AWS re:Invent usually happens in **Las Vegas**. And generally, in the last week of November.

In 2023, the event occurred between **Nov 27 and Dec 1** and attracted more than **50,000 people** from all over the world. That’s amazing.

**Over 2900 technical sessions** in 6 different venues, what makes you walk a lot. Sessions are at various levels, from beginners to advanced sessions, chalk talks, breakout sessions, keynotes, workshops, and so much more.

Every year, this event brings a lot of news in the world of cloud, and let’s look at some of the most exciting announcements.

## Highlight Announcements

- AWS launched **Amazon Q**, an assistant using generative AI specifically for work. You can use it in your account to ask best practices and other questions, for example. And obviously, I’ll make a video about it, showing how it works! If you want to know when I post a new video like that, subscribe to my YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/PenaRocks).
- **Next-generation AWS-designed chips**, Graviton4 and Trainium2, will make the workloads and genAI applications run faster, more efficient, and less expensive.
- **Announcements for Bedrock**: if you are a Bedrock enthusiast, now Bedrock has new powerful capabilities that empower customers to customize models. With the expanded choice of models, customers now have more models to build and scale **generative AI** applications.
- As expected, the event brought **a lot of things for AI**. Consequently, the innovations for **Amazon SageMaker**, with five new capabilities, will make it easier to build, train, and deploy new AI models.
- **Amazon S3 Express One Zone**. A new storage class for S3, designed for running applications that require extremely fast data access.

![Amazon S3 Express One Zone](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/grfx6jk1aabl8hjff8ub.jpg)

(Of course, I took a photo with the new S3 storage class)

Besides that, **it has many more announcements**, for example, for Serverless, Compute, Data, and other areas.

Here is the link with top announcements where you can navigate by area and better understand each of these new announcements: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/top-announcements-of-aws-reinvent-2023/

Besides that, you can watch the keynotes and a lot of sessions of the re:Invent on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/AmazonWebServices

## AWS Community
One of the best reasons to attend this event is the possibility of connecting with many people in the **world of cloud**, professionals, AWS leaders, and people from different programs in the AWS, like AWS Heros, Ambassadors, and community builders.

AWS has a **fantastic community**, and it offers the opportunity to make new friends, share ideas, and learn much more from these experienced guys; it is also a chance to **stay connected**, meet **new customers**, gain **new insights**, and so much more.

Of course, that’s not just business or technical stuff. You have so much fun with the community!

I will speak better and explain the **AWS Community Builders Program** in my next blog and video. Stay tuned!

My experience with the community has been unique! I met new people, I made new friends, and I connected with many people from different parts of the world; that was a fantastic experience.

I hardly recommend staying connected with your community, with the User Groups, Community Builders, Heros, and Ambassadors. It worths! Believe me.

## Reason to participate in the event
Let’s summarize the reasons to attend this event, and if I could choose five top reasons, that would be:

- Stay updated with new launches. You can do it online, but you will have a better experience in person.
- Hands-on workshops: the possibility to learn more and try new services.
- Exclusive sessions: talks and discussions that are not available online.
- Connect with AWS Community: AWS Heros, Ambassadors, User Group Leaders, and community builders.
- Expand your network: Meet new customers, meet the experts, create new connections and new friends, and learn and share your experience. That is one of the most valuable reasons to me personally.

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## That’s all, let’s rock the future, see you soon!


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