re:Invent 2023 keynote
Adam Selipsky · Nov 28, 2023 · 2h 15m · Las Vegas, Nevada
Summary
Selipsky's keynote was AWS's first big answer to the generative AI wave: a three-layer stack of custom chips and NVIDIA GPUs, Bedrock for models, and applications, capped by Amazon Q, a work assistant. Anthropic's Dario Amodei and NVIDIA's Jensen Huang joined on stage, alongside new storage and chip launches.
Key themes: AI infrastructure, Models, Assistants · AI-written summary from the published transcript
- 1Amazon S3 Express One Zone launched: single-digit millisecond object storage, up to 10x faster than S3 Standard13:45
- 2Graviton4 was announced with 50% more cores and 75% more memory bandwidth than Graviton317:49
- 3AWS and NVIDIA expanded their partnership, with Jensen Huang on stage for new GPU infrastructure24:49
- 4Trainium2 was announced for training foundation models, powering EC2 UltraClusters of up to 65 exaflops38:08
- 5Anthropic named AWS its primary cloud provider for mission-critical workloads, Dario Amodei said on stage47:45
- 6Agents for Amazon Bedrock became generally available, and Guardrails for Bedrock was announced1:02:40
- 7Amazon Q was introduced as a generative AI assistant built for work1:27:43
Announced
2 available the same day| Announcement | Status |
|---|---|
| Amazon S3 Express One ZoneLowest-latency S3 storage class | GA |
| AWS Graviton4 and R8g instancesNew Arm server chip, first instance R8g | Preview |
| AWS Trainium2Second-generation training chip | Announced |
| Agents for Amazon BedrockMulti-step tasks over company systems | GA |
| Guardrails for Amazon BedrockSafety policies for generative AI apps | Preview |
| Amazon QGenerative AI assistant for work | Preview |
| Zero-ETL integrations with RedshiftAurora PostgreSQL, RDS for MySQL and DynamoDB | Preview |
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About this keynote
Keynote page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMfn9_nTDbM
- Adam SelipskyCEO, Amazon Web Services
Companies named: Anthropic, BMW Group, Nvidia, Pfizer, Salesforce, AWS
Last changed 2026-09-24.
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