For the past two years AWS’s re:Invent conferences have primarily been about Amazon’s public cloud. In 2014, no doubt the focus is still on public Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). But Amazon is starting to embrace hybrid clouds now too, at least in its own way.

During the first day’s keynote at re:Invent, in front of a packed crowd of more than 13,500 attendees, AWS Senior Vice President Andy Jassy said it’s not a “binary decision” whether customers go all-in with AWS’s public cloud or keep everything on their own premises. AWS wants to make it as seamless as possible to connect customers’ existing on-premises systems with the company’s market-leading public cloud.

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