The period of fixed innovation at Amazon could possibly 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 arduous to maintain up with the onslaught of reports.

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

To offer 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 right down to 18, together with this one. It’s not that we wished to write down much less — we simply merely discovered there was much less related information to write down about.

The Day Two AI and machine studying keynote was all incremental enhancements to current merchandise. There have been so few significant bulletins that my colleague Frederic Lardinois wrote a put up in photos mocking the shortage of reports.

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 give attention to 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 implies that there’s actually much less to write down about. Eight new SageMaker capabilities or 5 new database and analytics capabilities, which I’m certain are vital to the parents 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 tremendous phrase processor, so the one option to actually enhance it was to lob on new function after new function to make it related to an ever wider or extra granular viewers.