AWS re:invent 2021 The Recap

From 29 November through to 3 December, AWS re:Invent 2021 is taking place online and in person. Between the conference talks, the leadership sessions and the workshops, there has been a plethora of announcements and new services presented. Did you miss them?!

Here are the essentials!

Pre-Announcements

• Measure and Improve Your Application Resilience with AWS Resilience Hub
• AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
• AWS Free Tier Data Transfer Expansion – 100 GB From Regions and 1 TB From CloudFront/Month
• Announcing AWS Graviton2 Support for AWS Fargate – Get up to 40% Better Price-Performance for Your Serverless Containers
• Preview – AWS IoT RoboRunner for Building Robot Fleet Management Applications

Announcements 29.11

• Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer Introduces Secrets Detector to Identify Hardcoded Secrets and Secure Them with AWS Secrets Manager
• Preview – AWS IoT RoboRunner for Building Robot Fleet Management Applications
• Improved, Automated Vulnerability Management for Cloud Workloads with a New Amazon Inspector
• AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform
• Amazon CloudWatch Evidently – Experiments and Feature Management
• Real-User Monitoring for Amazon CloudWatch
• Announcing AWS Well-Architected Custom Lenses: Extend the Well-Architected Framework with Your Internal Best Practices
• Use Amazon S3 Event Notifications with Amazon EventBridge
• Recycle Bin for EBS Snapshots
• Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive
• Announcing Pull Through Cache Repositories for Amazon Elastic Container Registry

Announcements 30.11

• AWS Backup Adds Support for Amazon S3
• Simplify Access Management for Data Stored in Amazon S3
• Introducing the S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval Storage Class
• Offline Tape Migration Using AWS Snowball Edge
• Enhanced Amazon S3 Integration for Amazon FSx for Lustre
• AWS Control Tower – Region Deny and Guardrails to Help You Meet Data Residency Requirements
• AWS Outposts Servers in Two Form Factors
• Storage-Optimized Amazon EC2 Instances (Im4gn and Is4gen) Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processors
• AWS Lake Formation – General Availability of Cell-Level Security and Governed Tables with Automatic Compaction
• Amazon Kinesis Data Streams On-Demand – Stream Data at Scale Without Managing Capacit

Announcements 1.12

• Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab, a Free Service to Learn and Experiment with ML
• Amazon VPC Network Access Analyzer
• Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS to Detect, Diagnose, and Resolve Amazon Aurora-Related Issues using ML
• Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server Is Generally Available
• DynamoDB Table Class – Save Up To 60% in Your DynamoDB Costs
• Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus
• Create and Manage EMR Clusters and Spark Jobs with Amazon SageMaker Studio
• Introducing SageMaker Training Compiler
• Amazon SageMaker Inference Recommender
• AWS Shield Advanced Update – Automatic Application Layer DDoS Mitigation
• Network Address Management and Auditing at Scale with Amazon VPC IP Address Manager
• Enhanced Dead-letter Queue Management Experience for Amazon SQS Standard Queues
• Site-to-Site Connectivity with AWS Direct Connect SiteLink

Announcements 02.12

• AWS SDK for Rust
• Introducing AWS Cloud WAN
• AWS re:Post – A Reimagined Q&A Experience for the AWS Community
• Amazon EC2 M1 Mac Instances to Build & Test Apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV
• Construct Hub and AWS Cloud Development Kit Version 2
• Sustainability Pillar for AWS Well-Architected Framework
• FreeRTOS Extended Maintenance Plan for Up to 10 Years
• AWS Cloud Development Kit V2 GA
• Local zone expansion
• AWS Lambda now logs Hyperplane Elastic Network Interface (ENI) ID in AWS CloudTrail data events