5 ways AWS just set the standard for AI development

AI-first development isn't coming—it's here. And AWS just proved it.

At AWS re:Invent 2024, Amazon unveiled major upgrades to AI, cloud infrastructure, and automation—the tools that will shape how you build and scale applications.

Today, we're covering 5 key takeaways from the event every dev should know:

1. EC2 Trainium2 and Trainium 3 — Faster, cheaper chips for AI workloads

2. S3 Table Buckets — 3x faster queries for big data

3. Amazon Bedrock — More efficient AI with model distillation (and smarter models with AWS' new Amazon Nova)

4. Amazon Q — Amazon agents that help automate developer tasks

5. Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse — Unified data lakes and warehouses for ML

Here’s what these updates mean for you.