AWS re:Invent 2020 News
AWS re:Invent is the biggest cloud event of the year and a highlight for every AWS enthusiast. For the first time, the 2020 edition will be a fully remote and free online event for everyone. If you haven’t registered yet, you can still do so here.
As usual, the agenda is fully packed with multiple keynotes, a massive amount of exciting sessions from over 50 tracks, hands-on, fun events, and many more to explore and learn.
We from evoila are very much looking forward to this thrilling time. With this page, we would like to provide you an overview of all the new services, features, and announcements from and around re:Invent 2020
Please stay tuned as we intend to update this blog post multiple times during re:Invent 2020 by adding new content.
(Last update 2020-12-18 17:30)
Pre re:Invent 2020 (November)
🎉 New Service Launches
- Introducing AWS Glue DataBrew
- Introducing AWS Gateway Load Balancer
- AWS Network Firewall – New Managed Firewall Service in VPC
- Introducing Amazon S3 Storage Lens – Organization-wide Visibility Into Object Storage
- Introducing Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA)
🎁 New Features and bigger Enhancements
- Amazon EventBridge introduces support for Event Replay
- Network Load Balancer now supports IPv6
- Amazon Athena announces availability of engine version 2
- Lightsail Containers: An Easy Way to Run your Containers in the Cloud
- Simplifying cross-account access with Amazon EventBridge resource policies
- Multi-Region Replication Now Enabled for AWS Managed Microsoft Active Directory
- Deploy applications on Amazon ECS using Docker Compose
- Multi-Factor Authentication with WebAuthn for AWS SSO
- Code Signing, a Trust and Integrity Control for AWS Lambda
- New Synchronous Express Workflows for AWS Step Functions
- Attribute-Based Access Control with AWS Single Sign-On
- Introducing AWS CloudFormation modules
- Creating faster AWS Lambda functions with AVX2
- Introducing Amazon API Gateway service integration for AWS Step Functions
re:Invent 2020 Week 1 (Nov 30–Dec 4)
🎉 New Service Launches
- Amazon DevOps Guru – A new service that uses ML to identify operational issues long before they impact customers
- Amazon Monitron – End-to-end solution for equipment monitoring. Sensors, Gateway, Predictions
- Amazon Lookout – Anomaly detection service for industrial machinery
- AWS Panorama Appliance – A new hardware appliance that allows organizations to add computer vision to existing on-premise cameras
🎁 New Features and bigger Enhancements
- Use Amazon EC2 Mac Instances to Build & Test macOS, iOS, ipadOS, tvOS, and watchOS Apps
- Lambda Container Support – Build Lambda-based applications using existing Container Development Workflows
- AWS Lambda billing granularity from 100 ms to 1 ms
- AWS Lambda – Functions with Up to 10 GB of Memory and 6 vCPUs
- gp3 Volumes for EBS. Allow scaling IOPS without scaling storage
- Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler – The fasstet way to prepare data for machine learning
- Amazon SageMaker Feature Store – A new repository that makes it easy to store update and share machine learning features
- Amazon SageMaker Pipeline – The first purpose-built, easy-to-use CI/CD service for machine learning
- Amazon Connect Customers Profiles – Gives agents a unified profile of each customer to provide more personalized service during a call
- Amazon Connect Real-Time Contact Lens – Identifies issues in real time to impact customer interactions during the call yourself
- Amazon Connect Tasks – Automates, tracks, and manages task for contact center agents
- Amazon S3 is now strongly consistent!
- AWS Amplify Admin UI Helps You Develop App Backends, No Cloud Experience Required
- Amazon S3 Replication Adds Support for Multiple Destination Buckets
- Introducing the new Amazon EKS console
- Amazon EKS Distro: The Kubernetes Distribution Used by Amazon EKS
- Amazon QuickSight – session capacity pricing for large scale deployments, embedding without user provisioning, and developer portal for embedded analytics
- Fluent Bit for Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate is here
- Amazon Elastic Container Registry Public: A New Public Container Registry
- Amazon EKS now supports provisioning and managing EC2 Spot Instances in managed node groups
- Introducing Amazon EKS add-ons: lifecycle management for Kubernetes operational software
- Managed Entitlements in AWS License Manager Streamlines License Tracking and Distribution for Customers and ISVs
- AWS Marketplace Now Offers Professional Services
- SaaS Lens in AWS Well-Architected Tool
- Fully Serverless Batch Computing with AWS Batch Support for AWS Fargate
- Using Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights to Improve Operational Visibility
- Build a unique Brand Voice with Amazon Polly
- Amazon EMR now provides up to 30% lower cost and up to 15% improved performance for Spark workloads on Graviton2-based instances
- Raising code quality for Python applications using Amazon CodeGuru
🚧 Previews
- AWS Proton – Automated management for container and serverless deployments
- iO2 Block Express – Cloud SAN. The highest IOPS and throughput in the cloud
- Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 – Scale to hundreds of thousands of transactions in a fraction of a second
- Bablefish for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL – Run Microsoft SQL Server applications on PostgreSQL with little to no code change
- AWS Glue Elastic Views – Easily combine and replicate data from different data stores
- Amazon QuickSight Q – Ask Q any question in natural language and get answers in seconds
- Amazon Connect Wisdom – Use machine learning to deliver agents the product and service information they need to solve issues in real time
- Amazon Connect Voice ID – Real-time caller authentication using ML-powered voice analysis
- Announcing Amazon ECS deployment circuit breaker
- Announcing Habana Gaudi-based EC2 Instances – Built specifically for ML training, Intel chips. Coming H1 2021
- Announcing AWS Trainium – New ML training chip, support all major frameworks and the Neuron SDK. Coming H2 2021
- Announcing Amazon EKS Anywhere. Run EKS in your own Data Center. Coming in 2021
- Announcing Amazon ECS Anywhere. Run ECS in your own Data Center. Coming in 2021
- Announcing AWS Outposts in two new sizes – Smaller Outposts (Pizzabox-size) to run AWS infrastructure in locations with less space. Coming in 2021
- 3 More AWS Local Zones in 2020, and 12 More in 2021
- Amazon Lookout for Equipment Analyzes Sensor Data to Help Detect Equipment Failure
re:Invent 2020 Week 2 (Dec 7–Dec 11)
🎉 New Service Launches
🎁 New Features and bigger Enhancements
- Managed Data Parallelism in Amazon SageMaker – Complete distributed Training on Amazon SageMaker up to 40 % faster
- Amazon SageMaker Clarify – Bias detection across the end-to-end machine learning workflow
- Deep Profiling for SageMaker Debugger – Deep profiling for neural network training
- Amazon SageMaker Edge Manager – Manage and monitor ML models efficiently across fleets of smart devices
- Amazon Redshift ML – Use SQL to make machine learning predictions from your data warehouse
- Amazon Neptune ML – Easy, fast, and accurate predictions for graph applications
- Amazon SageMaker Simplifies Training Deep Learning Models With Billions of Parameters
- Profile Your Machine Learning Training Jobs With Amazon SageMaker Debugger
- Store, Discover, and Share Machine Learning Features with Amazon SageMaker Feature Store
- Amazon Kendra launches incremental learning
- Amazon SageMaker JumpStart Simplifies Access to Pre-built Models and Machine Learning Solutions
- Amazon SageMaker Pipelines Brings DevOps Capabilities to your Machine Learning Projects
- Getting started with the Amazon Kendra Google Drive connector
- Introducing Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler, a Visual Interface to Prepare Data for Machine Learning
- New for Amazon CodeGuru – Python Support, Security Detectors, and Memory Profiling
- Cross region replication in Amazon ECR has landed
- PennyLane on Braket + Progress Toward Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing + Tensor Network Simulator
- Amazon EMR on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
- Optimizing tables in Amazon Redshift using Automatic Table Optimization
- Using Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights to Improve Operational Visibility
- Zero-effort Container deployment for GraphQL and REST APIs and Web Hosting with Amplify CLI
- Introducing Spot Blueprints, a template generator for frameworks like Kubernetes and Apache Spark
- Amazon EC2 instance-level network performance metrics uncover new insights
🚧 Previews
- Amazon Lookout for Metrics – Anomaly detection service for metrics with root cause analysis
- Amazon HealthLake – Store, transform, and analyze health and life sciences data in the cloud, at petabyte scale
- Create, train, and deploy machine learning models in Amazon Redshift using SQL with Amazon Redshift ML
- Amazon Redshift data sharing
- Amazon EMR Studio (Preview): A new notebook-first IDE experience with Amazon EMR
re:Invent 2020 Week 3 (Dec 14–Dec 18)
🎉 New Service Launches
🎁 New Features and bigger Enhancements
- Introducing AWS Systems Manager Change Manager
- AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager
- AWS Systems Manager Consolidates Application Management
- AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager
- AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN to Connect, Manage, and Secure LoRaWAN Devices at Scale
- Announcing AWS IoT Greengrass 2.0 – With an Open Source Edge Runtime and New Developer Capabilities
- New – FreeRTOS Long Term Support to Provide Years of Feature Stability
- Introducing AWS IoT Device Defender ML Detect
- Announcing General Availability of AWS Cost Anomaly Detection
🚧 Previews
- AWS Fault Injection Simulator – Fully managed engineering service to discover vulnerable parts in your application. Chaos engineering for everyone
- Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus – Fully managed service that makes it easy to query and visualise data sources such as metrics, logs and traces
- Amazon Managed Service for Grafana – Visualize data from multiple sources with Grafana
- Introducing AWS IoT SiteWise Edge
- Amazon Location – Add Maps and Location Awareness to Your Applications
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