.re:Invent 2018

General

• AWS re:Invent Blog
• Advanced CloudFormation Techniques and New Features
• AWS Twitch

Networking

• AWS Transit Gateway - Simplify Your Network Architecture
• AWS Global Accelerator for Availability and Performance
• AWS CloudMap - hosted service discovery system from AWS

Compute

• P3dn Instances (Preview)
• C5n Instances with 100 Gbps Networking
• EC2 Instances (A1) Powered by Arm-Based AWS Graviton Processors
• Elastic Fabric Adapter (Preview)
• Hibernate Your EC2 Instances
• Firecracker** – Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Computing**
• Compute, Database, Messaging, Analytics, and Machine Learning Integration for AWS Step Functions
• Snowball Edge with More Compute Power and a GPU
• Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (Amazon MSK) in Public Preview
• Blue/green deployments for AWS Fargate and Amazon ECS
• AWS Fargate, Amazon EKS, and Amazon ECS now integrate with AWS Cloud Map
• Lambda functions as targets for Application Load Balancers
• New for AWS Lambda – Use Any Programming Language and Share Common Components
• AWS Marketplace for Containers** **

Storage

• Amazon S3 Batch Operations (Preview)
• EFS Infrequent Access Storage Class (Preview)
• AWS DataSync** - Automated and Accelerated Data Transfer**
• AWS Transfer for SFTP** - Fully Managed SFTP Service for Amazon S3**
• Amazon FSx for Lustre - a fully managed file system for compute-intensive workloads
• Amazon FSx for Windows File Server – a fully managed file system for windows workloads
• Amazon EFS now Supports Access Across Accounts and VPCs
• Automatic Cost Optimization for Amazon S3 via Intelligent Tiering
• Doubled EBS Provisioned IOPS Performance
• S3 Glacier Deep Archive for Long-Term Data Retention

Serverless

• AWS Amplify Console** - Continuous deployment and hosting for serverless web apps **
• AWS App Mesh** - Service Mesh for Microservices on AWS**

Database

• Amazon Aurora Global Database - span multiple AWS regions, with fast replication to enable low-latency global reads and disaster recovery from region-wide outages
• Amazon DynamoDB On-Demand - No Capacity Planning and Pay-Per-Request Pricing
• Amazon DynamoDB Transactions
• Amazon Timestream - a fast, scalable, fully managed time series database service
• Amazon QLDB - fully managed ledger database with a central trusted authority

Security, Identity, & Compliance

• AWS Security Hub** - Centrally view, manage security alerts, automate compliance checks**
• AWS Control Tower** - set up and govern a secure, compliant multi-account AWS environment**

Management & Governance

• Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights – Fast, Interactive Log Analytics
• AWS License Manager – Manage Software Licenses and Enforce Licensing Rules
• AWS Well-Architected Tool – Review Workloads Against Best Practices

Internet of Things

• AWS IoT Events (Preview)
• AWS IoT SiteWise (Preview)
• AWS IoT Things Graph (Preview)
• AWS IoT Device Tester - test automation tool for connected devices

Machine Learning

• Amazon Comprehend Medical - medical language processing
• Amazon Forecast - Time Series Forecast based on Machine Learning (Preview)
• Amazon Personalize - Real-Time Personalization and Recommendation
• Amazon Translate supports now customized translations
• Amazon Textract - extract text and data from virtually any document

Satellite

• AWS Ground Station - Ingest and Process Data from Orbiting Satellites

Robotics

• AWS RoboMaker - Develop, Test, Deploy, and Manage Intelligent Robotics Apps

Blockchain

• AWS Managed Blockchain - Preview

Media Services

• AWS Elemental MediaConnect - ingestion and distribution of video in the cloud

Analytics

• ML Insights for Amazon QuickSight - Preview
• Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Java
• Amazon QuickSight adds support for dashboard embedding and APIs
• AWS Lake Formation - set up a secure data lake in days (Preview)

Unsorted

• AWS Private Marketplace - custom digital catalog of pre-approved products
• AWS Outpost** - bring native AWS services to any datacenter (second half of 2019)**
• AWS Toolkits for PyCharm, IntelliJ (Preview), and Visual Studio Code (Preview)