AWS re: Invent

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Invention comes in many forms and at many scales. The most radical and transformative of inventions are often those that empower others to unleash their creativity – to pursue their dreams.

We are creating powerful self-service platforms that allow thousands of people to boldly experiment and accomplish things that would otherwise be impossible or impractical.

Jeff Bezos
2011 Letter to Shareholders



Hundreds of thousands of businesses in over 190 countries are relying on AWS to support some or all of their business and IT needs. From SAP and Oracle production installations to risk management HPC, from Internet banking to protein folding, from social gaming to mobile collaboration tools, from video distribution to hotel reservations systems, supply chain management and medical archiving, the list of what our customers achieve using the AWS cloud is fascinating. Many of our customers will tell you that although the cost savings that AWS brings them are important, more important is that they are able to be more agile, that they are able to move faster in a world with murderous competition and highly compressed time-to-markets. They will tell you that because of the new resource models they are able to reinvent the way they are doing business and have entered into a new world where they are no longer constrained by access to resources and can focus their best people on adding value to the customer instead of managing infrastructure.

We want to help businesses to continue to reinvent themselves by sharing our experiences, sharing our great customer and partner’s stories, and to present our vision for the future. AWS re: Invent is our inaugural global customer and partner conference that will be held November 27-29 at The Venetian in Las Vegas. Well over 100 sessions from deep technical workshops to strategy sessions for executives, there will high quality content for everyone. And enough food for thought for everyone about how to continue to reinvent…

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