We expect AWS re:Invent to highlight AWS innovation with new features, products and geographical availability and AWS?s ecosystem with potential new disclosures on numbers of users, systems integrators, developers, etc. We also expect AWS re:Invent to underscore growing AWS enterprise and public sector adoption with customer presentations from Disney (Rendering, EFS, Spot), GE (Migration), Intuit (x4 Security, DevOps), and Fox (Migration) to name a few.
For products, we anticipate Amazon announce new database products like an AWS specific in-memory database (possible today with some third party products, but no specific Amazon service yet) or higher performance database services like Aurora (MySQL) announcement last year, new developer tools and improved access rights management for general compute and storage, new features and updates to Amazon virtual desktop platform Workspaces and new software partners for the WorkSpace apps marketplace. Amazon also will likely announce general availability for recent products across all availability zones (AWS machine learning, etc.) and may introduce new higher.
end instance flavors while lowering other instance pricing. Amazon may also highlight
recently announced S3 - Infrequent Access storage service and recent cuts in Glacier
storage ($0.01 per GB to $0.007 per GB)
