AWS re:Invent 2024, Amazon Web Services' annual conference, highlighted a wide range of new technologies for improving business cloud and AI environments.

Storage technologies were a prominent part of the AWS re:Invent experience, reflecting the importance of storing, protecting, and managing data and ensuring that data is ready for use with the latest performance-demanding AI and cloud applications.

CRN has brought together the latest offerings from seven storage vendors who used AWS re:Invent 2024 to introduce new hardware and software aimed at backing up data, providing visibility into stored data, providing seamless access wherever it is needed, improving performance, and easily extending data to AI environments.

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Amazon itself was busy showing off new technologies aimed at making stored data more useful for S3 and EC2 workloads.

AWS re:Invent 2024 was a great place to learn about the latest storage technologies for cloud and AI environments. Read on for a look at nine of those technologies.