AWS + Vercel: Accelerate AI to prod

[Music] Hello everybody. It's great to be here. Um, my name is Andrew Baird. I am a senior principal solutions architect from Amazon Web Services. I work in our Atlanta office and I've been with the company since uh 2010. Um, so suffice to say the uh the type of things I'm about to talk about when I started my career as a as a Java software engineer at at uh at Amazon um it would just blow my

mind the amount of productivity capability um you know excitement the the the future that everybody sees in front of us is so compelling that um the notion that everything we've experimented with over the last you know 18 months 24 months uh really being on the precipice of of this like critical mass moment we feel of everybody making it a production. The stuff I'm going to talk today about is how um how some of that journey's taken place and is represented in the partnership that AWS and Verscell have have had over the

years and uh and how some of the capabilities that we have that combine, you know, the strengths of both of our companies can really compel you to accelerate your AI um visions and um and capabilities to production. So without further ado, the agenda here today. First uh like I said, I'm going to give a bit bit of background. Uh then I'm going to uh hopefully set the stage and give you a sense of uh the level of capability that comes together within the story and how the integrations fit together. And then I'm going to dive a little bit deeper into um a particular

set of those capabilities that I think um are are most relevant for the audience here hopefully. And then finally, I'm going to uh move into the topic of agents and how agents in particular is um where a lot of the critical mass of attention has moved to today and how to to think about some of the capabilities that we've brought out to market recently and how they can play a role in the um AI applications that you you build. So, uh b really really brief history lesson. I I really want to just bring this up here to emphasize. So, I I began my career as a software engineer at Amazon in 2010. Like I said,

I became a solutions architect in 2014. started working with customers directly in Atlanta and uh that first year I became a solutions architect we released a service called Lambda and uh let me tell you as uh as an SA who was a developer and was used to thinking about things in terms of systems and architectures learning infrastructure was like super difficult for me. Um it took a lot of my time to um to get deep in it. And when something like Lambda came out, it was just like this huge epiphany moment um where I saw the

possibilities kind of became, you know, open and endless. The types of things I could create as a as a as a developer without having to have like true expertise on infrastructure. And I give you that story um just because I I really love the idea that Verscell is a company who is catering towards um developers and front-end developers in particular that they from the beginning have been founded and running on top of infrastructure like Lambda because it it just like imbuss this this this authenticity and this credibility that

the types of priorities they're setting as an organization and the types of problems that they want to focus on to deliver value for for us as customers is totally embodied in decisions like that and wanting to run on abstracted infrastructure like Lambda and to to offload as much um you know operational complexity and management as possible. And I think that you as developers should take a lot of confidence in a decision like that that the type of um the type of products that they're building, the types of experiences they that they believe are going to be valuable to you as developers is the

same types of stuff that they see as valuable as a company themselves. Um, so just I thought it's a really cool piece of um of symmetry between like how they operate as a company and what they bring to market for you for for you as developers. So a couple couple other timeline points, they joined the Amazon partner network in 2022. It's just a signal that um our as our relationships grew and our co our customers kind of um uh converged more and more uh were able to take advantage of opportunities where um you know we can attest to the level of credibility and competencies they