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AWS re:Invent 2024: CEO Keynote with Matt Garman

Matt Garman · Dec 3, 2024 · 2h 46m · Las Vegas, Nevada

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Summary

Garman's first re:Invent as CEO framed AI as a set of building blocks inside every application. The keynote spanned custom silicon (Trainium2 instances, Trainium3), new data primitives (S3 Tables, S3 Metadata, Aurora DSQL), Bedrock features against hallucinations and for multi-agent work, the Amazon Nova models introduced by Andy Jassy, and a next-generation SageMaker.

Key themes: AI infrastructure, Data platforms, Models · AI-written summary from the published transcript

Where each highlight is said2:45:54
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  1. 20:34

    EC2 P6 instances with NVIDIA Blackwell chips were announced

  2. 23:26

    Trainium2 instances offer 30 to 40% better price performance than current GPU instances, and UltraServers link 64 chips

  3. 26:41

    Project Rainier: a Trainium2 UltraServer cluster with Anthropic, five times the compute used for its current models

  4. 34:40

    Trainium3, AWS's first 3-nanometer chip, will bring twice the compute of Trainium2

  5. 42:33

    S3 Table Buckets, a new bucket type for Apache Iceberg tables, promise 3x faster queries and 10x more transactions per second

  6. 59:31

    Amazon Aurora DSQL, a distributed SQL database with strong consistency across regions, was announced

  7. 1:48:00

    Andy Jassy introduced the Amazon Nova family of frontier models, including Canvas and Reel for images and video

Announced

2 available the same day
ComingEC2 P6 instancesNVIDIA Blackwell GPUs
PreviewTrainium2 UltraServers64 Trainium2 chips over NeuronLink
ComingAWS Trainium3First 3nm AWS chip, 2x Trainium2 compute
GAAmazon S3 TablesTable buckets optimized for Apache Iceberg
PreviewAmazon S3 MetadataQueryable metadata for S3 objects
PreviewAmazon Aurora DSQLServerless distributed SQL, multi-region strong consistency
PreviewAmazon Bedrock Model DistillationDistilled models up to 500% faster and 75% cheaper
PreviewAmazon Bedrock Automated Reasoning checksCatch factual errors with automated reasoning
PreviewBedrock multi-agent collaborationAgents that coordinate on complex workflows
GAAmazon Nova modelsMicro, Lite, Pro, plus Canvas and Reel
PreviewAmazon Q Developer transformation agents.NET, VMware and mainframe transformation
AnnouncedNext generation of Amazon SageMakerSageMaker Unified Studio in preview, Lakehouse GA

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About this keynote

Keynote page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY7m5LQliAo

On stage

Companies named: Anthropic, Apple, GitLab, JPMorgan Chase, Nvidia, PagerDuty, AWS

Last changed 2026-09-24.