Here is my hot take that I forgot to write about from hashtag#AWSSummitLondon last week, in emoji, 🖥 🤖: 🛒🏗: 🤑💰: 👪 🤓.
Not only was it a lot busier than last year in terms of numbers, but with the growth of something that we probably didn’t expect from last year (effective AI) a lot of new content.
- There was a lot more AI 🖥 🤖 content and it was generally well received, however, very few people (partners or customers) have full access to all of AWS new services for AI… yet.
- There is a split between product companies buying 🛒 or building 🏗 AI services, probably more towards buying at the moment. I wonder how that will pan out, as to whether it will mean they remain on the edge of capability, or whether it will tie them to older versions. More seem to be buying from specialist companies at the moment.
- 🤑💰 Cost management was, of course, a well-covered subject, and I expect this to continue to be big going forwards. A lot of the management of cost has now become a significant extra framework around AWS. A split in sessions between how to manage costs and companies that have done it.
And finally, great events at the end. To fill a London event with around 25,000 people 👪 🤓 (that was the rumour) is good news for AWS and for the cloud in general.
