AWS re:Invent 2020, held as a virtual event this year for more than 500,000 attendees, was once again a blitzkrieg of major announcements that collectively have the potential to reshape the course of enterprise technology over the next few years.
Among the big news in several areas of AWS s cloud portfolio, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning took top billing, with the company actively courting new, more business-oriented audience for its solutions this year.
Below, I take a look at some of the highlights and assess what they mean for the market and Amazon s strategy, which is starting to move into some important new directions.
again, it s very unclear how that plays. there are many things likely to bring the president into focus internationally as well as at home. perhaps he will simply get distracted. the president is prepared to declare a national emergency to build a wall for what he claims the national crisis, an option that would be thrown into the courts, even though it will not get him the wall he wants. do you see this as an out for the president to say, hey, i tried? again, i think he s speaking very much to that base, which by and large has stayed with him. the question of calling a national emergency, i think there will be a pushback and from the courts, in large part because the evidence, the data we have seen on security at the border simply don t demonstrate there is an impending crisis. there s very little by way of