Only about four months to go before nearly 60,000 people descend on Las Vegas for the eighth annual AWS re:Invent user conference. However, that doesn’t mean that Amazon is going to embargo new service announcements until then. The recent AWS Summit in NYC looked more like a mini-re:Invent with nearly 12,000 people in attendance.

I have been super fortunate to work with incredibly innovative, talented teams that create powerful technology to help manage the world's data. When I met with Thomas Hazel, CHAOSSEARCH founder and CTO, and Les Yetton, CHAOSSEARCH co-founder and CEO to talk about CHAOSSEARCH — scalable, performant text search to your object storage without having to move any data — I knew it was special and was eager to join.