Problem-solving at the value level, how will Amazon Web Services Inc. face rising competition? Its ecosystem now more important than ever, how will AWS drive more value in artificial intelligence, automation, migration and “internet of things” infrastructure?

Looking to answer this and other questions, SiliconANGLE is at the sixth annual AWS re:Invent, currently underway in Las Vegas, Nevada, with exclusive commentary and interviews from our roving news desk, theCUBE. (* Disclosure below.)

Despite rivals like Microsoft Corp., Google LLC and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. growing faster, AWS continues to dominate the cloud infrastructure market. For its third-quarter results, Amazon.com Inc. reported AWS’ revenue rose 42 percent from a year ago to $4.58 billion.

When asked how people should view AWS’ growth compared to these faster-growing rivals, CEO Andy Jassy said during an exclusive interview with SiliconANGLE Media’s co-founder and co-CEO John Furrier, “We have just a much larger business in this infrastructure, technology, cloud space than anybody else. If you look at estimates from folks like Gartner, they estimate that we have several times the size business than the next 14 providers combined. So it’s a pretty significant leadership position.”

This year’s re:Invent is “going to be the first one where it’s truly a strong ecosystem story,” according to Peter Burris, chief research officer and analyst at Wikibon (owned by the same parent company as SiliconANGLE), during a CUBEConversation with Furrier. “It’s about how Amazon is providing services that the rest of the world is going to be able to consume and create new types of value through the Amazon ecosystem.”

AWS got its re:Invent conference off to a rapid start with its announcements Monday of the expansion of its AWS Elemental Media Services suite, designed to enable the end-to-end processing of video content, as well as the launch of its new Amazon Sumerian service, a platform for developers to create realistic virtual environments.

The company has also introduced the AWS Machine Learning Research Awards, which will fund academic machine learning research using its cloud. While personal finance company, Intuit Inc., announced it will use AWS as its standard machine learning and AI platform. 

At the end of last year’s re:Invent, theCUBE and Wikibon teams termed the next period for the company as AWS 2.0. This year, the research team at Wikibon believes we will get a sneak peek at AWS 2.1, which will focus on three themes – one area being AI, ML and deep learning.

As part of the research, Burris writes “Our expectation is that three of the more exciting introductions will be ML for service management, which may be extended into a set of hybrid cloud capabilities; an AI workbench capable of supporting an entire AI-based application lifecycle; and specialty AI clouds for specific industries that are indicating a proclivity for AI adoption.”

Ahead of its re:Invent conference, AWS expanded its ML capabilities with the announcement last week of a new ML laboratory called the ML Solutions Lab, as well as image recognition services. This month also saw AWS announce it was backing the Open Neural Network Exchange project, an open-source tool that makes deep learning models more flexible.

Watch the video below to see what else you can expect at AWS re:Invent 2017:

Keynote speakers at AWS re:Invent include Andy Jassy, chief executive officer of AWS; Werner Vogels, chief technology officer at Amazon.com Inc.; and Peter DeSantis, vice president of AWS global infrastructure.

How to watch theCUBE interviews

We offer you various ways to watch all of theCUBE interviews that will be taking place at AWS re:Invent, including theCUBE’s dedicated website and YouTube. You can also get all the coverage from this year’s event on SiliconANGLE.

TheCUBE’s dedicated website and Ustream

All of theCUBE’s exclusive interviews from AWS re:Invent will be available on theCUBE’s dedicated website.

You can also watch all the interviews on the dedicated Ustream channel.

Watch on the SiliconANGLE YouTube channel

All of theCUBE interviews from AWS re:Invent, which runs until Dec. 1, will also be loaded onto SiliconANGLE’s dedicated YouTube channel.

Cubecasts

SiliconANGLE also has podcasts available of archived interview sessions, available on both SoundCloud and iTunes, which you can enjoy while on the go.

Guests who will be interviewed at AWS re:Invent

Guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE include AWS re:Invent keynote speaker Andy Jassy; as well as other AWS executives Barry Russell, general manager of worldwide business and channel operations for AWS Marketplace & Service Catalog; Swami Sivasubramanian, vice president, Amazon AI; and Teresa Carlson, vice president, worldwide public sector.

Other guests include Intel Corp. executives Bob Rogers, chief data scientist; Dr. Naveen Rao, vice president and general manager, AI Products Group; Gayle Sheppard, vice president and general manager, Saffron AI Group; as well as BMC Software Inc. executives Daniel Nelson, assistant vice president of product management, security, compliance and automation; David Cramer, general manager of security, compliance and automation; Paul Beavers, vice president of products.  

TheCUBE will also interview Carmen Krueger, senior vice president of the Cloud Innovation Partner at SAP SE; Chris Wolf, chief technology officer, global field and industry at VMware Inc.; Eric Dube, senior principal product manager at Red Hat Inc.; and Julie Cordua, chief executive officer of Thorn.

Go to theCUBE’s official event page for a full list of guests and to add the interview details to your calendar.

Live stream of AWS re:Invent

If you are unable to attend AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, you can still catch a live stream of all the event’s keynotes and launch announcements from the comfort of your home or office.

You can register for the keynotes on the official event page, with Jassy presenting on Wednesday, Nov. 29 at 8:00 a.m. and Werner Vogels presenting on Thursday, Nov. 30 at 8:30 a.m.

(* Disclosure: Some segments on SiliconANGLE Media’s theCUBE are sponsored. Sponsors have no editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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