Amazon Web Services' (AWS) biggest conference of the year is just a day away, and everything looks like it's going to be a doozy. AWS re:Invent 2024 is starting in Las Vegas on Sunday, with sessions running through December 6. A keynote address featuring AWS CEO Matt Garman will take place on December 3 at 8 a.m. PT sharp.

AWS will be making a livestream of the keynote available on YouTube, and we'll be covering everything that's announced onstage. Keep your eyes peeled for that, as well as for our stories popping up throughout the course of re:Invent.

Notably, this is Garman's first re:Invent as AWS' CEO. His predecessor, Adam Selipsky, stepped down in May after just three years at the helm.

So what can we expect?

But Amazon must grapple with how the market perceives an uneven playing field in the race between Microsoft and Google; and lately, AWS has been offering no less than a string of different generative AI services across multiple categories. And this makes them report revenue from the AI into multiple billions.

In another victory, the company just weeks ago consolidated its partnership with Anthropic as the AI company's preferred model training partner and agreed to have Anthropic's team play a guiding role in shaping AWS's future AI chip designs.

But it has not all been smooth sailing for Amazon's cloud business. Recent departures include top AI exec Matt Wood, and delays of its flagship Olympus model.

Garman will almost certainly touch on generative AI at his keynote. (The re:Invent catalog lists over 500 generative AI-related sessions.) Yet he said to TechCrunch in October that re:Invent won't be just an AI conference this year.

“I think we’re going to have innovations across the stack in compute and storage and databases and analytics and AI,” he said in an interview. “It’s going to be across the whole stack of AWS.”

Expect a cameo from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy during Garman's keynote, the theme of which Amazon rather bombastically describes as "highlighting how AWS is reinventing foundational building blocks as well as developing new experiences to empower customers and partners with what they need to build a better future."

AWS VP Swami Sivasubramanian will give an AI- and data-focused presentation on new AWS services on December 4. And December 5, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels will dive deep into his tech predictions for the coming year — a longtime regular fixture of re:Invent.

Sivasubramanian and Vogels’ speeches, like Garman’s, will be streamed on YouTube — and we’ll be covering them right here on TechCrunch.