Amazon moves annual AWS re:Invent conference online as part of a free 3-week event

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy answers questions from reporters at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas in December. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop)

Amazon’s annual cloud conference is going fully digital this year as the global pandemic forces companies to move events online.

Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent 2020 will be a 3-week free virtual conference from Nov. 30 to Dec. 18. It was originally scheduled for Nov. 30 to Dec. 4 in Las Vegas.

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The event, held since 2012, has become one of the most important tech gatherings of the year. While Amazon is best known for its own e-commerce site, its cloud division is also the go-to cloud provider for some of the world’s top brands in media, healthcare, financial services, travel and other key sectors. More than 65,000 people attended re:Invent last year.

Google also moved its cloud conference online this year.

The decision to shift events online reflects ongoing concerns with large gatherings during the coronavirus crisis as COVID-19 cases have spiked in the U.S. over the past month. The Consumer Technology Association announced Tuesday that CES 2021 will be an all-digital experience this January for the first time ever. CES is also held in Las Vegas one month after re:Invent.

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Amazon moves annual AWS re:Invent conference online as part of a free 3-week event

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy answers questions from reporters at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas in December. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop)

Amazon’s annual cloud conference is going fully digital this year as the global pandemic forces companies to move events online.

Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent 2020 will be a 3-week free virtual conference from Nov. 30 to Dec. 18. It was originally scheduled for Nov. 30 to Dec. 4 in Las Vegas.

#AWS re:Invent 2020 will be free and virtual! Subscribe at https://t.co/gbmLDI0mBL for updates! pic.twitter.com/vBuxHt57JC

— Jeff Barr ?? (@ ?? ) (@jeffbarr) July 29, 2020

The event, held since 2012, has become one of the most important tech gatherings of the year. While Amazon is best known for its own e-commerce site, its cloud division is also the go-to cloud provider for some of the world’s top brands in media, healthcare, financial services, travel and other key sectors. More than 65,000 people attended re:Invent last year.

Google also moved its cloud conference online this year.

The decision to shift events online reflects ongoing concerns with large gatherings during the coronavirus crisis as COVID-19 cases have spiked in the U.S. over the past month. The Consumer Technology Association announced Tuesday that CES 2021 will be an all-digital experience this January for the first time ever. CES is also held in Las Vegas one month after re:Invent.

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Microsoft wants to run your conference rooms with new Teams Rooms Premium offering

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Microsoft unveiled new device management and monitoring options for Microsoft Teams and expanded the use of third-party apps within its collaboration software.

Microsoft Teams Rooms Premium is a new “real-time management service” that costs $50/device per month and lets Microsoft handle meeting room operations for companies using Microsoft Teams. It was previously known as Microsoft Managed Meeting Rooms.

“Microsoft provides 24/7 management and monitoring of your room operating system and software, surfacing insights and alerts around any action needed on-site and taking remote action on your behalf as permitted,” Microsoft 365 Corporate Vice President Jared Spataro wrote in a blog post. “Today’s offering is just the beginning, and we look forward to expanding with additional premium experiences in the future.”

Microsoft already offered a non-managed version of the service called Meeting Room. It renamed that offering to Microsoft Teams Rooms Standard and added new capabilities within the Teams Admin Center. Teams Rooms Standard is $15/device per month.

Microsoft today also expanded the ability for developers to create third-party apps that run inside Teams, and rolled out a new low-code data platform for Teams called Microsoft Dataflex.

Teams now has more than 75 million daily active users and has seen growth due to the work-from-home mandates amid the pandemic. Microsoft is battling Slack, Zoom, and other collaboration software makers.

The Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant made a bevy of other new product and service announcements as part of its Inspire conference.

Our partner ecosystem is critical to our customers’ success, and today we’re introducing new capabilities across our tech stack to enable them to help organizations drive digital resilience and transformation during this time of unprecedented change. https://t.co/UjlkFN7EFP

— Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) July 21, 2020

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