Tom Krazit

Today: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels closes AWS re:Invent 2024 with advice on how to make complex things simple, OpenAI unveils an absurdly expensive subscription plan for its latest model, and the latest enterprise moves.

Today: A look at some of re:Invent 2024's most important new products and services that cloud buyers will be tracking over the next year, and the quote of the week.

AWS didn't ignore AI during Garman's presentation Tuesday, but it spent a significant amount of time on the services that turned it into a $100-billion a year enterprise computing powerhouse: compute, storage, and databases.

Today: How the hyperscalers are adapting their data-center design strategies as demand for AI workloads, electricity, and water takes off, Google's quantum-computing "breakthrough," and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.

Most enterprises are still struggling to turn their generative AI experiments into actual production applications. They've done more than 90% of the work, but the last 10% has proven much harder than anticipated, according to AWS's Swami Sivasubramanian.

Today: An interview with AWS AI chief Swami Sivasubramanian, why Amazon held off on deploying Microsoft 365 after last year's security debacle, and the latest enterprise moves.

Today: Google makes a flurry of year-end AI announcements, IBM brings fiber optics inside the data center, and the quote of the week.

Today: Salesforce continues its agentic AI push, Databricks secures one of the biggest funding rounds in tech history, and the rest of this week's enterprise funding.

Today: A look back at some of the most notable developments from the past year and the last Runtime Roundup of 2024.

This year marked a turning point for enterprise tech as spending recovered and the economy stabilized following years of rising interest rates and supply-chain disruption. While no one knows what lies ahead, here are five things we thought summed up a pivotal year.