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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!

Werner starts by addressing the elephant in the room: Werner has given re:Invent keynotes since 2012, but this is his last one. He's not leaving Amazon, but he believes after so many years, the keynote audience deserves a fresh new set of AWS voices.

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.

Bezos believes we're at the convergence point of multiple golden ages, in AI, robotics, space travel, and development in each area accelerates the others. Werner reckons the other era this reminds him of is the renaissance. Ok, let's see where he's going with this.