The date for November 27-29

Save the date for November 27-29, 2012 for more than 100 sessions, including hands-on workshops, cloud computing strategy sessions and technical deep dives

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amazon Web Services LLC, an Amazon.com company, today announced AWS re: Invent, its first global customer and partner conference. The conference will take place November 27-29, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada at The Venetian hotel and will include more than 100 sessions just as hands-on workshops, cloud computing strategy sessions and technical deep dives delivered by the AWS team and AWS clients and partners. Attendees will learn how to leverage AWS services and features for a variety of popular use cases just as big data analytics, high performance computing, disaster recovery, web applications, mobile and game development, and enterprise IT applications. The AWS engineering and service teams will lead hands-on workshops throughout the conference and will be available in the developer lounge to answer technical questions each day of the conference.

“AWS re: Invent is an possibility for our current and future clients to learn proven strategies for taking advantage of the AWS cloud and take home new ideas that will help them invent within their own businesses and deliver more value to their clients.”

"There's an unbelievable amount of invention taking place every day on AWS by hundreds of thousands of new and existing businesses. And, anybody who has studied the history of business, and especially that of research, knows that if you're not reinventing your products, processes, people allocation, cost structure, skill-sets, and speed to market, it's difficult to survive in the long term as a successful company," said Ariel Kelman, Head of Worldwide Marketing, Amazon Web Services. "AWS re: Invent is an possibility for our current and future clients to learn proven strategies for taking advantage of the AWS cloud and take home new ideas that will help them invent within their own businesses and deliver more value to their clients."

Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud computing. The ultimate benefit of cloud computing, and AWS, is the ability to leverage a new business model and turn capital infrastructure expenses into variable costs. Businesses no longer need to plan and procure servers and other IT resources weeks or months in advance. Using AWS, businesses can take advantage of Amazon's expertise and economies of scale to access resources when their business needs them, delivering results faster and at a lower cost. Today, Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of enterprise, government and startup clients businesses in 190 countries around the world. AWS offers over 28 different services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Simple Storage Service and Amazon Relational Database Service. AWS services are available to clients from data center locations in the U.S., Brazil, Europe, Japan and Singapore.

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