Thank you for this year

AWS team,

What a year it’s been. It seems every year we all talk about unprecedented change, both in the world and inside our own walls. This year has been no exception, from economic uncertainty to world unrest to generative AI. Through it all our AWS team has stayed focused on making things better for our customers and in our communities, while building the world’s best technologies to solve real problems. I am very thankful to you for your incredible level of customer obsession and innovation.

This was the year of enterprise-level generative AI, which represents such a massive shift in technology and in behavior. I really believe it has the potential to change the way we all live and work. We are well positioned to create impactful solutions, with our 25-year history in AI and machine learning, our approach to building in security and responsibility from the beginning, our ongoing chip innovations, and our strategy to offer customers choices when it comes to foundation models.

I’m so proud of what you all have delivered this year. We hosted more than 50,000 people at re:Invent with more than 300,000 tuning in virtually—and the excitement at the event was palpable. We launched three new regions and announced plans to open two more—including the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, a new, independent cloud for Europe designed to meet the most stringent regulatory data residency and operational requirements. Together, we launched thousands of new services and features this year. More than 10,000 customers (including many industry leaders) are already using Amazon Bedrock to build generative AI applications. We also delivered Graviton4, the latest generation of our general purpose chip. In addition, we made a new commitment to provide free AI skills training to two million people globally by 2025. And, we are committed to being water positive by 2030, returning more water to communities than we use, while Amazon remains the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy in the world since 2020. This is just the beginning.

As we wind down the year, I hope you are able to take some time to rest and recharge. I appreciate your passion, determination, hard work, and ingenuity to make our business and the world better, at a time when we all hope for peace. There is so much we will continue to build together for our customers, and I am really optimistic about what we will deliver in 2024. Thank you for all you do.

Onward, Adam