In the Amazon Web Services world, this has always been a busy time of the year. Busy, because, although we aim for a fairly even pace of new service announcements and new feature releases all year, invariably, somewhat more happens towards the end of the year than early on. And, busy, because the annual AWS re:Invent conference is in early November and this is an important time to roll out new services or important features. This year is no exception and, more than ever, there is a lot to announce at the conference. It should be fun. < ?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> I enjoy re:Invent because its a chance to talk to customers in more detail about what we have been building, learn how they are using it, and what we could do to make the services better.