AWS: How do you do, fellow kids? Please watch our keynotes in Fortnite

Drive around a virtual track in Las Vegas while watching Matt Garman speak on in-game billboards

RE:INVENT Amazon Web Services has decided to stream all five keynotes from its re:Invent conference in the hit multiplayer game Fortnite, which is more than a little bit bonkers.

Readers of a certain age might suggest that opinion proves The Register has become a proverbial old man shouting at a (hyperscale) cloud.

We dismiss such criticism on grounds that AWS will show its conference keynotes in Fortnite in two settings.

One is in a virtual lounge within Fortnite, and we have no objection to that.

The other way to watch in Fortnite is “while driving on a Las Vegas themed racetrack that features the live keynotes playing on billboards throughout the track.”

AWS shared the image below to illustrate the experience.

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