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Web Services announced AWS re: Invent, its first global customer and partner conference. The conference will take place November 27-29, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada at The Venetian hotel and will include more than 100 sessions such as hands-on workshops, cloud computing strategy sessions and technical deep dives delivered by the AWS team and AWS customers and partners. Attendees will learn how to leverage AWS services and features for a variety of popular use cases such as big data analytics, high performance computing, disaster recovery, web applications, mobile and game development, and enterprise IT applications. The AWS engineering and service teams will lead hands-on workshops throughout the conference and will be available in the developer lounge to answer technical questions each day of the conference.

"There's an unbelievable amount of invention taking place every day on AWS by hundreds of thousands of new and existing businesses. And, anybody who has studied the history of business, and especially that of technology, knows that if you're not reinventing your products, processes, people allocation, cost structure, skill-sets, and speed to market, it's difficult to survive in the long term as a successful company," said Ariel Kelman, Head of Worldwide Marketing, Amazon Web Services. "AWS re: Invent is an opportunity for our current and future customers to learn proven strategies for taking advantage of the AWS cloud and take home new ideas that will help them invent within their own businesses and deliver more value to their customers."