AWS Re:Invent 2022 — Keynotes
Here is a little overview of some keynotes that have I participated in while at the event in Las Vegas
AWS re:Invent is one of the largest IT conferences in the world and offers users of all experience levels the opportunity to sharpen their skill sets and learn more about AWS technologies. Attendees have access to keynote announcements, training, certification opportunities, technical sessions, and more. This year, as always, there were after-hours social events for attendees to enjoy. For those who couldn’t make it to Las Vegas, live virtual sessions delivered up-to-date information anywhere in the world and recorded sessions.
It took place from November 28 to December 2 in several different Venues in Las Vegas, the principal venue being The Venetian and others being the Caesars Forum, Encore, Mandalay Bay, MGM Grand, and Wynn.
Some Important Information:
When scheduling your session, be careful to watch over the places where the sessions will be hosted because even with the sutles available it can take a while for you to arrive on time where you need to be. Some of my colleagues walked over 18 miles each day from session to session. And go with comfortable sneakers.
Some Types of sessions:
- Bootcamps: Designed to expand your understanding of AWS services, and solutions to help prep you for certification.
- Breakout sessions: Organized by experience level and led by AWS experts.
- Chalk Talk: Where the attendees interact more with the presenters offering options, use cases, and insights about the subject
- AWS Builder Labs: where cloudies and devs can experience AWS in a live sandbox environment.
- Workshops: Presenters give a case and some documentation or you to follow on how to solve it.
Important Tips:
- Choose your hotel as closes as possible to The Venetian, and from there will be easier to move anywhere else.
- Book your sessions as soon as possible. I got my Re:Invent ticket a little late and all the sessions interesting to me were not available anymore.
- Use comfortable sneakers. You definitely will walk a lot and probably won’t stay much time seated.
- Watch out for Overflow rooms and sessions where you can wait and enter if there are any available seats.
- Networking. This is one of the main points of the event, there will be people from all over the world, talk to as many as possible because our IT world is very small.
- Keep hydrated, use the Re:Invent bottle that you got in the SWAG and buy it at any pharmacy the Lip repair, mine got all cracked with the cold and dry air.
Keynote KEY002 — Adam Selipsky
AWS has the following environmental goals:
- 100% renewable energy by 2025
- “Water positive” by 2030
Journey of companies that started using AWS with an average of 30% cost reduction and the one with the highest cost reduction being Airbnb with a 70% reduction.
What’s New in Integrations:
- Amazon Aurora zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift
Within seconds of data being written to Amazon Aurora, the data is available in Amazon Redshift, so now there is no need to build and maintain complex data pipelines for ETL. - Amazon Redshift Integration for Apache Spark
Facilitates the build and execution of Spark applications on Amazon Redshift and Redshift Serverless, facilitating the use of Analytics and Machine Learning services in solutions
No more need to move your data or adjust connectors
What’s New in Governance:
- Amazon DataZone
It is a management service for cataloging, discovering, and sharing data at scale.
What’s New in Insights:
- Paginated Operational Reports for Amazon QuickSight
Users can now create, schedule, and share reports and export data from a single BI solution - Amazon QuickSightQ
With QuickSight Q anyone can ask questions in natural language and receive accurate answers with relevant visualizations that help them gain insights from the data - Prediction based on Machine Learning with QuickSight Q
Allows users to visualize predictions of business performance using machine learning
What’s New in Security:
- EKS container runtime threat detection using Amazon GuardDuty
GuardDuty can now run inside EKS container nodes - Amazon Security Lake
New AWS tool that analyzes and investigates petabytes of security data
What’s New in Computing:
- inf2 instance for EC2
4x the throughput and 1/10 the latency - hcp6a instance for EC2
- hcp7g instance for EC2, using graviton3
- hcp6id instance for EC2
News in Services:
- Amazon Connect:
- New machine learning-based capabilities for forecasting, capacity planning, scheduling, and agent training
- Contact Lens with agent performance management
- Now provides step-by-step guides in the agent workspace
Others News:
- AWS SimSpace Weaver
Used to run large-scale dynamic spatial simulations on Managed Infrastructure. - AWS Supply Chain
Helps mitigate risk and reduce costs to increase supply chain resilience. - AWS Clear Rooms
It is an analytics service that helps industries easily and securely analyze and collaborate on their datasets without sharing or revealing underlying data. - Amazon Omics
It is a new purpose-built service that helps healthcare and life sciences organizations store, query, and analyze genomic, transcriptomic, and other omics data. It generates insights from that data to improve health and drive scientific advancements.
Future releases:
- Identity Resolutions
Combine and resolve records triggered from a variety of channels and sources
Keynote Key003 — Swami Sivasubramanian
Core elements for data strategy
- Build future-proof database
- Trace connective tissue
- Democratize data
Building the future-proof database
- Tools for every workload
94% of customers using AWS use more than 10 databases - Performance at scale
- Remove heavy lifting
- Reliability and scalability
What’s New in Workloads:
- Amazon Athena for Apache Spark
Use for complex and powerful analysis
Spend more time on insights than waiting for results
Build apps without managing resources or configuring software
Apache Spark runs 3x faster on AWS.
What’s new in Performance:
- Amazon DocumentDB Elastic Cluster
Scale workload elastically in minutes
Zero impact on the availability or performance of your application
Automatically manage the underlying infrastructure - Amazon Sagemaker for Geospatial Machine Learning support
Acquire geospatial data in just a few clicks
Prepare geospatial data with built-in algorithms
Construction of velocity models with neural network models
What’s New in Reliability and Security:
- Amazon Redshift Multi-AZ
Ensures automatic failover capability
Maximizes performance with high availability
Maintain business continuity without application changes - Reliable language extensions for PostgreSQL
Use extensions safely to suit your needs
Install no-wait extensions for AWS certification
Take advantage of popular programming languages - Amazon GuardDuty for RDS protection
Identifies potential threats in data stored on Aurora
Create profiles and monitor access activities to new and existing databases in your account
Utilizes custom machine learning models to accurately detect suspicious logins in aurora databases
What’s new in Quality Tools:
- AWS Glue Data Quality
Automatic creation of rules for data quality
Improve data quality for better decision making
Reduce manual efforts from days to just hours
What’s New in Governance:
- Centralized access controls to Redshift data shares
Centrally manage redshift data access controls using information from Lake Formations
Accesses and designated user without complex queries or manual scripts
Better visualization and control of shared data within and across accounts in your organization - 3 new Machine Learning Governance types for Amazon Sagemaker:
- Role Manager: Set custom user permissions in minutes
- Model Cards: Centralize model information and documentation
- Model Dashboard: Monitor model performance in one place
What’s new in Zero-ETL:
- Amazon Redshift auto-copy from S3
Simplifies data upload from Amazon S3 to Amazon Redshift
Continuous ingestion rules can be configured to automatically upload new files without the need for additional tools
Copy Jobs track previously uploaded files and exclude them from the ingest process
Your activity can be monitored using system tables
Jobs can be run manually to reuse copy instructions and avoid data duplication - Amazon AppFlow now supports 50+ connectors
- Amazon Sagemaker Data Wrangler now supports over 40 new data sources
GFT in the AWS Re:Invent 2022
GFT had a stand at the event talking a little about GreenCoding.
Green coding is term that has been coined, relatively recently, to refer to programming code that has been produced and written in a way that minimises the energy consumption of software, thereby limiting the potential environmental impact.
The principles of green coding should not be considered in opposition to existing practices. Rather, they should be incorporated into the principles of software engineers to consider when writing and designing code in order to balance functionality and with energy usage.
https://stlpartners.com/articles/sustainability/green-coding-what-is-it/
Check out our GFT Brazil Logbook where our Brazilian team gave some overviews about several sessions and the GFT Highlights by our Team in US.