AWS re:Invent 2021 announcement by Adam Selipsky
Introduction
It is the most, exciting and wonderful time of the year. The time AWS gives the customers what they want by launching new tools and services to change the course and destiny of Cloud Computing. AWS is always a pioneer in innovation in the Cloud space.
What’s New?
Adam Selipsky was the new CEO of AWS after Andy Jassy was announced as the new CEO and President of Amazon.com gave the first key-note launching a lot of new services. I shall be giving a brief summary of some of the announcements made by Adam during his keynote at re:Invent.
The Announcements
In no particular order here are some of the new service launches and improvements that were announced yesterday at the 10th anniversary of AWS re:Invent:
New Amazon EC2 C7g instances powered by AWS Graviton3 processors: These are a new set of instances that used the newly upgraded AWS Graviton processors. This will deliver more efficiency at a lower cost. See more about it here.
AWS Mainframe Modernization: This is a service that makes it easy to migrate, and run mainframe environments on the cloud. It cuts mainframe migration time by 2/3 of the original time. It has managed security, resiliency, elasticity and it is cost-efficient. Read more about it here. This is the official product page for more in-depth information.
AWS Private 5G: You can easily set up a scalable private mobile network in days for your organization. AWS provides the hardware, software, and SIM cards to manage the system. It is currently in preview. You can join the preview and learn more about it here.
Row and cell-level security on AWS Lake formation: With this new feature in AWS Lake formation, you can give users, data engineers, machine learning engineers, and anyone else who needs access to data, more granular access to the data stored in Lake formation. This also helps in compliance with regulations such as GDPR.
Announcing preview of Amazon EC2 Trn1 instances: These are new instances for machine learning workloads. Less expensive and more efficient instances built on the AWS Trainium-based processors which are optimized for high-performance and deep-learning training. Read more about these new instances on the product page here.
Serverless across data analytics services: Redshift, EMR, MSK, Amazon Kinesis, now have serverless capabilities. No need to provision, manage, scale, and secure instances for your data engineering and analytics workload. This will come with all the capabilities of serverless systems but it is currently in preview. These are the details for each service Redshift, EMR, MSK, Amazon Kinesis.
Amazon Sagemaker Canvas: This is the first-ever machine learning tool that allows you to generate highly accurate ML predictions without any ML experience or writing code. You can learn more about it here.
Other Notable Announcements
AWS Kapentar: An Open-Source High-Performance Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler, which will help in making cluster auto-scaling It helps improve your application availability and cluster efficiency by rapidly launching right-sized compute resources in response to changing application load. See more here.
AWS CloudWatch Real-User Monitoring (RUM): Monitoring the front end has never been fun like this. This feature which is a part of CloudWatch allows you to monitor user activity on your apps in real-time. Learn how it works.
Preview of AWS Backup for Amazon S3: This is another service to be integrated into the AWS Backup service, after EBS, EC2, and RDS, EFS, DynamoDB, FSx, Aurora, Storage Gateway. This will make AWS Backup a more robust, centralized, and one-stop-shop for all backups in AWS.
Recycle Bin for EBS Snapshots: Recycle bin to store deleted snapshots, this can serve as a fail-safe when an EBS snapshot is deleted mistakenly
Conclusion
These services are not to scare anyone really, because I know it might look scary, but these solutions make your current existing system work better and more efficiently. The advice is to look at the improvements that relate to the services that you use within your organization, learn the new features and apply them accordingly. My favorite I am testing this week is AWS RUM.
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