The period of fixed innovation at Amazon may very well be over • TechCrunch

There was a time when AWS re:Invent, the yearly buyer extravaganza placed on by Amazon’s cloud arm, was chock filled with bulletins. The innovation popping out of the corporate was so mind-boggling that it was laborious to maintain up with the onslaught of stories.

However this yr felt totally different. If final yr was incremental, this yr was downright sluggish when it got here to significant information.

To present you a way of our protection right here at TechCrunch, final yr, we wrote 28 tales in regards to the occasion. This yr, it’s all the way down to 18, together with this one. It’s not that we wished to put in writing much less — we simply merely discovered there was much less related information to put in writing about.

The Day Two AI and machine studying keynote was all incremental enhancements to present merchandise. There have been so few significant bulletins that my colleague Frederic Lardinois wrote a submit in footage mocking the shortage of stories.

It’s gotten to the purpose, it appears, the place the ecosystem has grown so monumental, and there are such a lot of merchandise, that the corporate has determined to deal with making it simpler to work with and between these merchandise (or with exterior associate merchandise) than creating stuff from scratch.

From a information perspective, that signifies that there’s actually much less to put in writing about. Eight new SageMaker capabilities or 5 new database and analytics capabilities, which I’m certain are necessary to the oldsters who wanted these options, really feel like piling onto an already feature-rich set of merchandise.

It’s not not like Microsoft Phrase over time: It’s a superbly wonderful phrase processor, so the one approach to actually enhance it was to lob on new characteristic after new characteristic to make it related to an ever wider or extra granular viewers.