AWS re:Invent 2019 Wrap Up

AWS made hundreds of announcements and disclosures at AWS re:Invent 2019. This conference had more than 65,000 people spread out across six venues on the Las Vegas Strip. 65,000 is a huge jump from last years 43,000 2018 attendance. We hope to see all of you next year at the conference.  The placeholder date for AWS re:Invent 2020 is November 30 through December 4 in Las Vegas – look out for more Möbius out there!

Below is the Summary of updates with some keynote links to help you better understand what was announced. If you need any assistance with your current or new AWS projects or start the AWS journey, please reach out to us here at Möbius Partners we would be happy to help.

Aaron Malinowski
Practice Manager – Cloud Integration
aaronm@mobiuspartners.com

Compute

• Introducing EC2 Image Builder
• Announcing General Availability of AWS Outposts
  • Keynote
• Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, and AWS App Mesh now support AWS Outposts
• Amazon ECS Cluster Auto Scaling Now Available
• Amazon ECS now supports Active Directory Authentication using Windows Accounts gMSA
• The EKS ARM-Processor EC2 Instances is Available in More Regions with Latest Kubernetes Versions (Preview)
  • Keynote
• Run Serverless Kubernetes Pods Using Amazon EKS and AWS Fargate
  • Keynote
• AWS launches Fargate Spot, save up to 70% for fault tolerant applications
• Introducing AWS Compute Optimizer
• Amazon ECS Capacity Providers Now Available
• AWS Lambda announces Provisioned Concurrency
• Amazon EC2 Nitro System Based Instances Now Support 36% Faster Amazon EBS-Optimized Instance Performance
• Introducing Amazon EC2 Inf1 Instances, high performance and the lowest cost machine learning inference in the cloud
• Introducing AWS Local Zone in Los Angeles, CA
  • Keynote
• Announcing New Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g Instances Powered by Next-Generation Arm-based AWS Graviton2 Processors
  • Keynote

Storage

• Introducing Access Analyzer for Amazon S3 to review access policies
• Amazon S3 Access Points makes it simple to manage access at scale for applications using shared data sets on S3
  • Keynote
• Introducing Access Analyzer for Amazon S3 to review access policies

Networking

• Announcing Accelerated Site-to-Site VPN for Improved VPN Performance
• Amazon Web Services Announces AWS Transit Gateway Network Manager to Centrally Monitor Your Global Network
• AWS Transit Gateway now supports Inter-Region Peering
• Run IP Multicast Workloads in the Cloud Using AWS Transit Gateway
• Amazon VPC Ingress Routing Makes it Easy to Insert Virtual Appliances in the Forwarding Path of VPC Traffic

Security

• Introducing Amazon Detective
• AWS Security Hub integrates with the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer
• Introducing AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer

Database

• Amazon RDS on Outposts is available in preview
• Amazon Neptune Workbench provides in-console experience to query your graph
• Introducing Amazon RDS Proxy (Preview)
• Announcing Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service (Preview)

Analytics

• Amazon Kinesis Video Streams adds support for real-time two-way media streaming with WebRTC
• Amazon Redshift introduces RA3 nodes with managed storage enabling independent compute and storage scaling
• Amazon Redshift introduces support for federated querying (preview)
• Announcing Amazon Redshift data lake export: share data in Apache Parquet format
• AWS announces UltraWarm (preview) for Amazon Elasticsearch Service
• Amazon EMR is now available in your data center with AWS Outposts
• Announcing Amazon Redshift data lake export: share data in Apache Parquet format

Machine Learning Announcements

• All ML announcements