Everyone walked into re:Invent expecting one story: AI everywhere. And yes, AWS pushed agenticAI, new models, new chips, and an “AI factory” vision hard. But the work happening on the floor told a different story. DevOps, CloudNative and PlatformEngineering weren’t sidelined. They were packed and central to almost every conversation. In today’s ShimmySays, Alan Shimel breaks down what re:Invent really revealed: teams still need automation, containers, orchestration, and reliable pipelines. AI doesn’t replace that foundation. It runs on top of it.