The attendee’s guide to the AWS re:Invent 2024 Compute track

This blog post is a guide for AWS re:Invent 2024 attendees, specifically for the Compute track. It highlights the various session types and provides recommendations for sessions focused on Amazon EC2, AWS compute innovations, cost optimization, performance optimization, machine learning, AWS Graviton adoption, and specific workloads like web applications, containers, SAP HANA, high-performance computing, and more.

Specifically, the article covers:

• Different session types like breakouts, chalk talks, builders, workshops, code talks, and lightning talks
• Sessions on getting started with Amazon EC2, including new features and instance selection
• Sessions on AWS compute innovations like the AWS Nitro System, AWS Graviton processors, and AWS AI chips
• Sessions on optimizing compute costs using techniques like AWS Graviton, Spot Instances, and proactive scaling
• Sessions on maximizing workload performance, including benchmarking and application performance engineering
• Sessions on machine learning applications, including generative AI, large language models, and multi-modal AI
• Sessions on accelerating AWS Graviton adoption, including best practices, migration, and hands-on workshops
• Workload-specific sessions for web applications, containers, SAP HANA, high-performance computing, and more
• Conclusion encouraging attendees to explore the Compute Booth and other re:Invent resources