Amazon Takes Charge: Breakthrough Announcements at AWS re:Invent 2024

Amazon Takes Charge: Breakthrough Announcements at AWS re:Invent 2024

This IDC Market Note reviews the announcements from the AWS re:Invent 2024 conference that are of specific relevance to the database software market. It includes announcement details and commentary.“Although there are many headliners here, the big announcement involves the delivery of the new SageMaker as a fully integrated data platform capable of providing all the services required for a data lakehouse in a single environment,” says Carl Olofson, research vice president for Data Management Software at IDC. “This makes AWS a one-stop shopping option for those wishing to integrate their data, including analytics, application access transformations for analytic purposes, generative AI interaction, and the convergence of data with reconciliation from multiple places in one platform with full data governance support.”