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Ok, @topper.me.uk here for the final AWS re:Invent keynote of the year. This one is Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com, and unusually it's just an hour long - which is probably for the best, because it's pretty late here in the UK.

As is traditional, we're starting with some nerd wish fulfillment video content. In previous years, this has seen Werner starring in something like The Matrix, or Fear & Loathing. This time... Back To The Future.

Lots of Amazon frugality on show in this particular video!

The other elephant in the room: Will AI take my job? Werner's answer? Maybe. Some tasks will be automated, some skills made obsolete.

But where AI might make some *jobs* obsolete, it won't make *you* obsolete, if you evolve.

We've had assembly, compilers, structured programming, object oriented programming, monolithic architectures, service-oriented architectures. Things have always changed, the new shift in focus to AI is no different.