Everything you might have missed at AWS re:Invent 2024
With AWS re:Invent underway, the company has already unveiled a whole host of news, updates, upgrades and other announcements.
Given everyone’s busy schedules, you may have missed some of the more niche or interesting announcements — but don’t worry, we’ve got you covered.
If you want to track all the news and updates as they happen — follow our AWS re:Invent 2024 live blog for the breaking news — and don’t worry, we’ll keep this piece updated with anything else we spot that we don’t have time for a full article on!Amazon Nova is here
Our special guest in the day one keynote was a familiar face for AWS fans — former CEO, and now Amazon boss Andy Jassy.
He revealed Nova, a new family of foundation models, which is hoped will push Amazon to the forefront of the AI arms race.
We’ve covered the image and video generation models Canvas and Reel in our news story — but Nova is actually four tiers of model, available on Amazon Bedrock now.
The full line-up is Amazon Nova Micro (a very fast, text-to-text model); and Amazon Nova Lite , Amazon Nova Pro , and Amazon Nova Premier (multi-modal models that can process text, images, and videos to generate text).A new generation of SageMaker
Amazon’s analytics platform SageMaker has long been one of the company’s biggest success stories, and it got a host of upgrades at re:Invent 2024.
