At AWS re:Invent, media leaders outlined how the shift toward generational preferences for user-generated content, gaming, and livestreaming is redefining the future. These trends underscore a broader industry evolution where traditional media silos collapse, giving rise to multi-dimensional strategies and allowing the already excessively powerful AWS to capitalize on the rush to diversify—potentially at the cost of emerging players being priced out or technologically eclipsed. Samira Bakhtiar, AWS’s Director of Global M&E, Games & Sports, emphasized how the hyperscaler is helping customers navigate this transition with purpose-built cloud platforms, advanced streaming tools, and generative AI (see separate story this week for more on genAI). But before we get into the many case studies, there were a couple of moments during…