This week, we review the major announcements from AWS re:Invent and discuss how the hyperscalers are embracing A.I. Plus, a few thoughts on children’s chores.

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AWS re:Invent
- Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2023 | Amazon Web Services
- Salesforce Inks Deal to Sell on Amazon Web Services’ Marketplace
- AWS Unveils Next Generation AWS-Designed Chips
- Join the preview for new memory-optimized, AWS Graviton4-powered Amazon EC2 instances (R8g)
- Announcing the new Amazon S3 Express One Zone high performance storage class
- AWS unveils new Trainium AI chip and Graviton 4, extends Nvidia partnership
- AI Chip - AWS Inferentia - AWS
- DGX Platform
- Foundational Models - Amazon Bedrock - AWS
- Supported models in Amazon Bedrock - Amazon Bedrock
- Agents for Amazon Bedrock is now available with improved control of orchestration and visibility into reasoning
- Knowledge Bases now delivers fully managed RAG experience in Amazon Bedrock
- Customize models in Amazon Bedrock with your own data using fine-tuning and continued pre-training
- Amazon Q brings generative AI-powered assistance to IT pros and developers
- Improve developer productivity with generative-AI powered Amazon Q in Amazon CodeCatalyst
- Upgrade your Java applications with Amazon Q Code Transformation
- Introducing Amazon Q, a new generative AI-powered assistant
- New Amazon Q in QuickSight uses generative AI assistance for quicker, easier data insights
- Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector provides agentless metric collection for Amazon EKS
- Amazon CloudWatch Logs now offers automated pattern analytics and anomaly detection
- Use Amazon CloudWatch to consolidate hybrid, multicloud, and on-premises metrics
- Amazon EKS Pod Identity simplifies IAM permissions for applications on Amazon EKS clusters
- Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon OpenSearch Service is now available
- Amazon says its first Project Kuiper internet satellites were fully successful in testing
- AWS takes the cheap shots
- Here's everything Amazon Web Services announced at AWS re:Invent

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