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.