Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! While business transformation has always been critical to staying relevant and competitive, global disruptions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic created an urgency to accelerate innovation to keep pace with market conditions and changes in customer demand. In fact, many digitally transformed companies have not only survived -- they've thrived. According to a 2021 McKinsey Survey, top-performing companies now obtain a larger share of their sales from products or services that didn't exist just one year ago.

To further strengthen our commitment to providing industry-leading coverage of data technology, VentureBeat is excited to welcome Andrew Brust and Tony Baer as regular contributors. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is on a mission to enable organizations -- including startups, enterprises and government agencies -- to become more agile and innovate faster at lower costs. Last year, an AWS executive told VentureBeat that a priority for AWS in 2022 will be automation at scale, allowing customers to bolster the security of their cloud environments. To advance its mission, AWS today unveiled innovations across several services, including databases, machine learning, IoT and application development. The announcement came yesterday at the AWS Summit, San Francisco, where Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of data, analytics and ML services at AWS, offered details on the new product offerings in a keynote address.