Here are five standout moments from this year’s event, which took place both in Las Vegas and online November 29 through December 3:
Adam Selipsky Returns To re:Invent After Rejoining AWS
Adam Selipsky kicked off the 10th annual AWS re:Invent in his first appearance at the event as Amazon Web Services CEO.
“It is great to be back here,” Selipsky said, greeting the virtual audience and those attending live in Las Vegas on what was also the 15th anniversary of AWS, the cloud infrastructure service that emerged from an
online bookseller to become the market leader.
A founding AWS executive, Selipsky made his triumphant return in May 2021 after a five-year break serving as president and CEO of Tableau Software, the business analytics and reporting firm he led through its acquisition by Salesforce.
“In the last 15 years, cloud has become not just another tech revolution, but a shift in how businesses actually function,” Selipsky said during his keynote, when he also called out innovative AWS clients, such as NASA and Netflix. He also announced a cavalcade of AWS upgrades, most notably the Gravitron3, a faster Arm-based chip powering the performance-enhanced AWS EC2 C7g virtual servers.
ADAM SELIPSKY
CEO, AWS
We know your data is on a journey. All stops along the journey matter.
You can’t skip any of them, and at each step, you have to have the right capabilities.”
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