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December 4, 2017 By Todd Harris Leave a Comment
The sixth annual Amazon Web Services (AWS) Re:Invent conference was held last week in Las Vegas. Like years past, 2017 Re:Invent was a dizzying week of new announcements, enhancements to existing products, and interesting prognostications on the future of cloud computing.
The first Re:Invent conference was held in 2012. 6000 attendees gorged themselves on keynotes, sessions, hackathons, bootcamps, cloud evangelism, and video games. Not much has changed, except for the number of attendees. 2017 boasted 43,000 attendees with a conference campus spread across multiple venues on the Las Vegas strip. It was not difficult to get your 10,000 steps in this year.