This year’s AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas marked a major milestone as a conference filled with innovative discoveries and keynotes in the Cloud and AI areas that will shape the business and technology landscape in the coming years. With around 60,000 attendees and 2,000 learning sessions, the event showcased the immense scale and influence of the AWS community.
As an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner, we had a strong representation of experts there in the areas of business development, strategic partnerships, and architecture, who took advantage of these five fruitful days filled with insightful panels to further Billennium being an active part in implementing top AWS innovations with our customers in the areas of pharma, public sector, finance and more.
Billennium experts with compelling findings
AWS re:Invent is a key opportunity to connect with global business leaders and specialized cloud technology and AI experts. Above all, it is a unique chance to gain first-hand knowledge of upcoming developments and innovations.
From Billennium, the event was attended by Nina Nourafrouz, Chief Growth Officer, Łukasz Stypułkowski Head of Partnerships, and Hubert Puacz, DevOps Technical Leader. Each of them made the most of an agenda full of keynotes, workshops, and talks to be inspired by the potential of newly discovered solutions and networking experiences, making Billennium an active AWS ambassador for change in our clients’ projects.
Nina’s key takeaway: New solutions for Pharma and Public Sector transformation
“Attending AWS CEO Matt Garman’s speech live and exploring his insights was incredible. He gave an example of how companies like Genentech use AI to automate more than 43,000 hours of manual work per year – saving up to 5 years of effort. This is a bold example of how technology is increasing productivity and transforming industries like pharma, ultimately improving patient outcomes by accelerating breakthroughs. This resonates deeply with our mission at Billennium to support companies with cutting-edge solutions in the pharma industry, where innovation increases productivity and creates tangible value.
With the upcoming AWS European Sovereign Cloud, tailored to meet the strict sovereignty needs of public sector and highly regulated industries, and tools like Amazon Q driving efficiency by saving thousands of hours across teams, AWS is setting new standards for operational excellence. Furthermore, during her keynote, Dr. Ruba Borno, Vice President of Global Specialists and Partners at AWS, announced new AI security categories, ensuring safer and more responsible deployment of AI technologies. These advancements strengthen our ability to empower customers across industries and contribute to transformative innovations.”
Hubert’s key takeaway: Simplicity through discipline and adapting to change
“Dr. Werner Vogels’ AWS VP & CTO session on Simplexity was a powerful reminder that while complexity is unavoidable, we must shift it rather than let it overwhelm us. His lessons on evolvability, aligning architecture with organization, and automating complexity resonated deeply with me.
I learned that to succeed in a constantly changing world, we must adapt or risk falling behind. Dr. Vogels also emphasized that simplicity is about discipline – doing only what’s necessary. His words, ‘Complexity can neither be created nor destroyed; it can only be shifted elsewhere,’ capture the essence of designing efficient, scalable systems.”
Łukasz’s key takeaway: Empowering partners with innovations for customer success
“Dr. Ruba Borno presented groundbreaking updates that strengthen the partner ecosystem – features directly valuable for Billennium and our customers. Key announcements included new security specializations like AI Security and Digital Sovereignty, which align with our focus on secure, responsible innovation.
The ability to access AWS Marketplace directly from partner websites opens new opportunities to streamline modernization projects for our clients. Additionally, GROW with SAP now available on AWS Marketplace enhances enterprise solutions, and the Partner Connections preview enables more effective collaboration across partners.
These advancements reflect AWS’s partner-first approach, perfectly matching Billennium’s mission to deliver transformative, scalable solutions that drive customer success.”
Breakthrough announcements and new features in AWS
As usual, AWS used this key event to announce many upcoming innovations, new solutions, and unmatched features that will shape business through technology in the years to come. The agenda was filled with announcements that we followed live and online, and here are the ones that caught our attention the most, as we can use them to respond even better to our customers’ needs.
- Amazon EC2 Trn2 UltraServers to manage generative AI workloads, enabling our customers to get faster results and scalable AI solutions that are actionable in cases such as drug discovery and predictive analytics.
- Enhancements to Amazon Connect bring new generative AI features and integration with communication systems, facilitating proactive and seamless interactions with customers and improving the level of support and satisfaction.
- AWS Industry Quest will allow us to enable gamified training, accelerating skill-building in industries like healthcare and helping teams adopt the latest innovations quickly and efficiently.
- Amazon Bedrock updates enable extended support for foundational models, simplifying the deployment of custom AI solutions and reducing time-to-market.
- Amazon Kendra Enhancements improved AI-driven search capabilities and natural language processing to offer faster, more accurate ways to manage and retrieve information. For industries like pharma or public services, this means removing inefficiencies and enabling better decision-making.
- AWS DataZone’s latest updates simplify the process of organizing, sharing, and governing data. We’re inspired by how these features can enable teams to make faster, more informed decisions while maintaining compliance and security.
- Amazon Redshift Performance Boosts, through enhanced scalability and speed in real-time analytics, enable organizations to process data more efficiently. We’re excited about how this aligns with the increasing need for real-time insights in today’s fast-paced environment.
Billennium & AWS: Partnering to empower customers through cloud
Our partnership with AWS is the opportunity to use top cloud and AI solutions, access to certifications and a huge knowledge base, and, most importantly, improve our customers’ businesses through proven methods. Participating in AWS re:Invent was an essential opportunity for us to tangibly experience the tremendous progress our partner is making in responding even more effectively to market needs. We are an active part of this change, exchanging knowledge, absorbing new information, and implementing innovations into our daily operations for customers.
At the core of our actions are the customers and their needs – we want to be at the forefront of change and technological breakthroughs so they, through our services, achieve top results and a competitive advantage. These 5 days in Las Vegas were a valuable lesson about innovation but also a signpost for how to act in the time ahead to get the most out of Cloud and AI and align their capabilities most efficiently with our clients’ businesses.
