‘It has been hectic. This event is our Super Bowl. There’s a non-stop stream of people’

Atmosphere of relief and excitement at AWS ReInvent

Lisa-Marie Namphy, head of developer relations at Cockroach Labs, at the expo floor at AWS ReInvent

The “Super Bowl” of tech conferences for some companies, the mood on exhibit floor at AWS ReInvent was one of relief and excitement.

The expo floor at ReInvent, Amazon Web Services’ 20,000 person annual conference in Las Vegas, was covered with businesses eager to just get back out talking to customers.

Kevin Abraham, product marketing manager at DataDog, a cloud security business, didn’t understate the event’s importance to his company.

“It has been hectic. This ...