| I finally went to an AWS event this year: the AWS Summit in DC. It was an awesome (and awesomely overwhelming) experience, but I completely agree with the author. GenAI EVERYWHERE. The other topics that the author brought up from re:Invent 2022 were still present, but not without heavy mentions of how AI contributes to them. That said, I have some predictions that might make OP happier. DevOps and Platform Engineering is still a hot topic, especially in a world where companies are repatriating back to the data center (or are at least going hybrid). All of the 2010s bare metal tech (Foreman, Ansible, etc) are going to come back in big ways, and Kubernetes consumption will only increase. eBPF and systems engineering is still hot and will really help here for high-performance observability. Companies that won't repatriate or want to use the cloud for prototyping will want to focus on cost optimization. This requires serious cloud engineering skills (using spot instances and S3 lifecycle policies is table stakes; much more can be done, especially on reporting and automation). GenAI will help here (super helpful for analyzing time series data and surfacing patterns), but having the fundamentals will always be useful here. |