re:Invent 2019

re:Invent the highlight for each AWS enthusiast. As in 2018, we want you to be as close as possible even if you cannot be on site. We will use this page to list every new service and every feature what AWS announced during this week. Don't forget to join our meetup on 5th of December for the live streaming. And remeber it is always day one.

General

• AWS re:Invent Blog
• AWS Twitch
• AWS Youtube Channel

After re:Invent

• CloudFormation coverage updates
• re:Invent Decks
• re:Invent Sessions

Day-4

Feature	Service	Description	Preview / Region availability	Category
Firecracker-containerd	FireCracker	Enables containerd to manage containers as Firecracker microVMs.		Compute
Builders' Library		This library is designed to give you direct access to the theory and the practices that underlie our work.		Misc

Day-3

Feature	Service	Description	Preview / Region availability	Category
Chime Meetings App for Slack	Chime	This new app allows Slack users to start and join Amazon Chime online meetings from their Slack workspace channels and conversations.		Business Applications
Windows gMSA Support in ECS	ECS	Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) now supports Windows group Managed Service Account (gMSA), a new capability that allows you to authenticate and authorize your ECS-powered Windows containers with network resources using an Active Directory (AD).		Compute
Neptune Workbench	Neptune	You can now query your graphs from within the Neptune Console using either Gremlin or SPARQL queries.		Database
DataStore	Amplify	Simplify Development of Offline Apps with GraphQL.		Mobile
Amplify for iOS and Android	Amplify	You can now build iOS and Android applications using the Amplify Framework with the same category-based programming model that you use for JavaScript apps..		Mobile
HTTP APIs	API Gateway	HTTP APIs is a new flavor of API Gateway.	Preview - available in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Ireland)	Networking & Content Delivery

APN	Description
Public Safety & Disaster Response Competency	With the new AWS Public Safety & Disaster Response Competency, Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers can identify top AWS Partner Network (APN) Consulting Partners that can identify, build, and implement technology offerings that improve organizational capacity to prepare, respond, and recover from emergencies and disasters.
Retail Competency	This designation helps retailers find top APN Partners with highly specialized solutions and consulting practices that offer retail technology and services that are powered and vetted by AWS.
Navigate Tracks	Help Partners Build Successful Cloud-Based Businesses.
Global Startup Program	This program is invite-only and helps startups become enterprise-ready with prescriptive benefits, simplified paths to meeting foundational requirements for the AWS Partner Network (APN), and a robust set of resources to help startups significantly accelerate their growth.
Service Ready Program	This program identifies and validates products from APN Technology Partners that integrate with specific AWS services, and recommends these products to customers.
Immersion Day	AWS Immersion Day workshops are day-long, in-person workshop that AWS Solutions Architects created to help customers walk through different areas of Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Day-2

Feature	Service	Description	Preview / Region availability	Category
UltraWarm	Elasticsearch Service	UltraWarm, a fully managed, low-cost, warm storage tier for Amazon Elasticsearch Service.	Preview - available in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon)	Analytics
Express Workflows	Step Functions	High Performance & Low Cost.		Application Integration
Fargate for EKS	EKS	Amazon EKS and Fargate make it straightforward to run Kubernetes-based applications on AWS by removing the need to provision and manage infrastructure for pods.	Available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	Compute
Fargate Spot	EKS	Fargate Spot is a new capability on AWS Fargate that can run interruption tolerant Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Tasks at up to a 70% discount off the Fargate price.		Compute
Auto Scaling	ECS	AWS ECS Cluster Auto Scaling is Now Generally Available.		Compute
Capacity Providers	ECS	Capacity Providers are a new way to manage compute capacity for containers, that allow the application to define its requirements for how it uses the capacity.		Compute
Provisioned Concurrency	Lambda	A feature that keeps functions initialized and hyper-ready to respond in double-digit milliseconds.		Compute
Graviton2	EC2	Programmatic Access to EBS Snapshot Content.	Coming Soon	Compute
Direct APIs	EC2	Graviton2-Powered General Purpose, Compute-Optimized, & Memory-Optimized EC2 Instances.	Available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	Compute
EC2 Update	EC2	Inf1 Instances with AWS Inferentia Chips for High Performance Cost-Effective Inferencing	Available in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) Regions.	Compute
Contact Lens	Amazon Connect	Contact Lens for Amazon Connect is a set of integrated ML analytics capabilities for Amazon Connect that gives contact centers the ability to understand the sentiment, trends, and compliance of customer conversations to improve customer experience and identify crucial customer feedback.	Preview	Customer Engagement
Redshift Update	Redshift	Next-Generation Compute Instances and Managed, Analytics-Optimized Storage.		Database
Data Lake Export and Federated Query	Redshift	New for Amazon Redshift – Data Lake Export and Federated Query.		Database
Deep Graph Library	SageMaker	An open source library built for easy implementation of graph neural networks, is now available on Amazon SageMaker.		Machine Learning
Experiments	SageMaker	Organize, Track And Compare Your Machine Learning Trainings.		Machine Learning
Autopilot	SageMaker	Automatically Create High-Quality Machine Learning Models With Full Control And Visibility.		Machine Learning
Processing	SageMaker	Fully Managed Data Processing and Model Evaluation.		Machine Learning
Model Monitor	SageMaker	Fully Managed Automatic Monitoring For Your Machine Learning Models.		Machine Learning
Debugger	SageMaker	Debug Your Machine Learning Models.		Machine Learning
Studio	SageMaker	The First Fully Integrated Development Environment For Machine Learning.		Machine Learning
Multicast and Inter-Regional Peering	TGW	Transit Gateway Adds Multicast and Inter-Regional Peering.	Available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland), and EU (Frankfurt)	Networking & Content Delivery
Network Manager	TGW	Build Global Networks and Centralize Monitoring Using Network Manager.		Networking & Content Delivery
Ingress Routing	VPC	Simplifying Integration of Third-Party Appliances.		Networking & Content Delivery
Access Points	S3	Easily Manage Shared Data Sets with Amazon S3 Access Points.		Storage

Service	Description	Preview / Region availability	Category
Managed Cassandra Service	A scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service.		Database
Compute Optimizer	Customized Resource Optimization Service.	Available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), US East (Ohio), South America (São Paulo)	Compute
Nitro Enclaves	Enclaves offers an isolated, hardened, and highly constrained environment to host security-critical applications.	Preview	Compute
RDS Proxy	A fully managed, highly available database proxy for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) that makes applications more scalable, more resilient to database failures, and more secure.		Database
Local Zone	The Local Zone is a new type of AWS infrastructure deployment that brings select AWS services very close to a particular geographic area.		Infrastructure
Outposts	Single-vendor compute & storage solution that is designed to meet the needs of customers who need local processing and very low latency.		Infrastructure
Amazon Detective	This service will help you to analyze and visualize security data at scale.	Preview	Machine Learning
Augmented AI	Augmented AI (Amazon A2I) makes it easy to build the workflows required for human review of ML predictions.		Machine Learning
CodeGuru	A new machine learning service for development teams who want to automate code reviews, identify the most expensive lines of code in their applications, and receive intelligent recommendations on how to fix or improve their code.	Preview - available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Sydney)	Machine Learning
Fraud Detector	A fully managed service that makes it easy to identify potentially fraudulent online activities such as online payment fraud and the creation of fake accounts.		Machine Learning
Kendra	A highly accurate and easy to use enterprise search service that’s powered by machine learning.		Machine Learning
Wavelength	Enables developers to build applications that deliver single-digit millisecond latencies to mobile devices and end-users.		Misc

Day-1

Feature	Service	Description	Preview / Region availability	Category
Schema registry and discovery	EventBridge	These are new developer tool features, which allow you to automatically find events and their structure, or schema, and store them in a shared central location.	Preview - available in US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), US East (Northern Virginia) Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region, and Europe (Ireland)	Application Integration
IoT SiteWise Updates	IoT SiteWise	Five new features and updated pricing for AWS IoT SiteWise.	Preview - available in US West (Oregon), US East (Northern Virginia), and EU (Ireland)	Internet of Things
Operators for Kubernetes	Sage Maker	A new capability that makes it easier for developers and data scientists using Kubernetes to train, tune, and deploy machine learning (ML) models in SageMaker.	US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and EU (Ireland)	Machine Learning
DeepRacer Update	DeepRacer	New Features & New Racing Opportunities.	Northern Virginia only	Machine Learning
BYOL Update	License Manager	Bring-Your-Own-License Experience for Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server.	Available in US-East (Northern Virginia) and US-West (Oregon)	Management & Governance
DeepComposer		Compose Music with Generative Machine Learning Models.	Preview - available in early Q1 2020	Machine Learning
Access Analyzer	IAM	Identify Unintended Resource Access with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer.		Security, Identity, & Compliance
Access Analyzer for S3	S3	Access Analyzer for S3 evaluates your bucket access policies and enables you to discover and swiftly remediate buckets with potentially unintended access.		Storage

Service	Description	Preview / Region availability	Category
EC2 Image Builder	Automate OS Image Build Pipelines with EC2 Image Builder.		Compute
Braket	Get Started with Quantum Computing.		Quantum Computing
Transcribe Medical	Real-Time Automatic Speech Recognition for Healthcare Customers.	US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon)	Machine Learning

Pre:Invent

Feature	Service	Description	Preview / Region availability	Category
QuickSight Update	QuickSight	New API support for data, dashboard, SPICE and permissions.	Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, Seoul, Ireland, Frankfurt, London, Northern Virginia, Ohio, Oregon	Analytics
EventBridge Update	EventBridge	EventBridge Support in Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR).	Everywhere except Bahrain, Osaka, Beijing, Ningxia	Application Integration
Dead-Letter Queues	SNS	Amazon SNS DLQs make your application more resilient and durable by storing messages in case your subscription endpoint becomes unreachable.		Application Integration
Step Functions Update	StepFunctions	Using Step Functions to Orchestrate Amazon EMR Workloads.	Everywhere except Osaka	Application Integration
Cost Category	Cost Explorer / Budgets	Cost Categories enables users to define category rules to map and categorize costs using billing dimensions such as accounts and tags.	Preview	AWS Cost Management
Weighted Target Groups	ALB	Application Load Balancer Simplifies Deployment with Weighted Target Groups.		Compute
Savings Plans	EC2 / Fargate	Flexible discount model for AWS Compute Services		Compute
Fast Snapshot Restore	EC2 / EBS	Amazon EBS Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR) eliminates the need for pre-warming data into volumes created from snapshots.	Only available in: US East (Virginia), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), EU (Ireland),EU (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	Compute
Auto Scaling Update	EC2	Auto Scaling Now Supports Maximum Instance Lifetime & Instance Weighting.		Compute
Shared Dedicated Hosts	EC2	Dedicated Host sharing enables Dedicated Host owners to share their Dedicated Hosts with other AWS accounts or within an AWS organization.		Compute
GitHub Actions	ECS / Fargate	Continuous delivery of container applications to AWS Fargate with GitHub Actions		Compute
Firelens	ECS / Fargate	Using FireLens, customers can direct container logs to storage and analytics tools without modifying deployment scripts, manually installing extra software or writing additional code.		Compute
Managed worker nodes	EKS	You can now easily provision managed worker nodes for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) clusters and keep them up to date using the Amazon EKS management console, APIs, or CLI.		Compute
Scaling controls	Lambda	Lambda scaling controls for Kinesis and DynamoDB event sources.		Compute
Destinations	Lambda	Lambda controls for stream processing and asynchronous invocations.		Compute
Aurora Update	Aurora	Use Machine Learning Directly From Your Databases.		Database
DynamoDB Update	DynamoDB	Convert Your Single-Region Tables to Global Tables.		Database
Encryption keys for Amazon DynamoDB	DynamoDB	DynamoDB introduced support for customer managed customer master keys (CMKs) to encrypt DynamoDB data.		Database
Materialized views	Redshift	Materialized views provide significantly faster query performance for repeated and predictable analytical workloads such as dashboarding, queries from business intelligence (BI) tools, and ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) data processing.	Preview	Database
Notifications	CodeCommit / CodeBuild / Codedeploy / Codepipeline	Receive notifications about events in repositories, build projects, deployments, and pipelines.		Developer Tools
New Automation Features	Codepipeline	Passing variables from one action to another in Codepipeline. Possibility of dynamically configure Codepipeline actions with variables that will be evaluated at execution time.		Developer Tools
Approval Rule Workflows	CodeCommit	AWS CodeCommit Enables Enforcing Approval Rule Workflows For Pull Requests.		Developer Tools
Test Reports	CodeBuild	Test Reports with AWS CodeBuild.		Developer Tools
Resource Import	CloudFormation	If you created an AWS resource outside of AWS CloudFormation management, you can bring this existing resource into CloudFormation management using resource import.		Management & Governance
Cfn Update	CloudFormation	CLI - is now open source; Registry - provides per-account, per-region storage for your resource providers + Third-Party Resource Support		Management & Governance
Insights	CloudTrail	Identify and Respond to Unusual API Activity.		Management & Governance
Cross-Account / -Region Dashboards	CloudWatch / Organizations	Share inside of an Organization or with seperate Accounts		Management & Governance
ServiceLens	CloudWatch	ServiceLens is a new feature that enables you to visualize and analyze the health, performance, and availability of your applications in a single place.		Management & Governance
Synthetics	CloudWatch	CloudWatch Synthetics allows you to monitor application endpoints more easily.	Preview - only available in: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), EU (Ireland)	Management & Governance
Contributor Insights	CloudWatch	Contributor Insights analyzes time-series data to provide a view of the top contributors influencing system performance.	Preview	Management & Governance
Support for third-party resources	Config	Config launches support for third-party resources & introduces Conformance Packs.		Management & Governance
Tag Policies Update	Organizations	Use Tag Policies to Manage Tags Across Multiple AWS Accounts.		Management & Governance
Jira Connector	Service Catalog	Simplify cloud provisioning with AWS Service Catalog Connector for Jira Service Desk.		Management & Governance
Explorer	SSM	AWS Systems Manager Explorer – A Multi-Account, Multi-Region Operations Dashboard.		Management & Governance
AppConfig	SSM	Safe Deployment of Application Configuration Settings With AWS AppConfig.		Management & Governance
Overlapping Namespaces	Route 53	Overlapping Namespaces For Private Hosted Zones: Support for overlapping namespaces makes it easy to manage permissions across your organization.		Networking & Content Delivery
IAM Update	IAM / Organizations	Control access to resources based on OU - Use IAM to share your AWS resources with groups of AWS accounts in AWS Organizations.		Security, Identity, & Compliance
Sessions Tags	IAM / STS	Use Employee Attributes for Access Control in AWS.		Security, Identity, & Compliance
Asymmetric keys	KMS	Digital signing with the new asymmetric keys feature of AWS KMS.		Security, Identity, & Compliance
AWS Single Sign-on Update	SSO	Customers can now connect Azure Active Directory to Single Sign-on once, manage permissions to AWS centrally in AWS SSO, and enable users to sign in using Azure AD to access assigned AWS accounts and applications.		Security, Identity, & Compliance
Managed Rules	WAF	Announcing AWS Managed Rules for AWS WAF.	Everywhere except Bahrain, Hong Kong, Beijing, Ningxia	Security, Identity, & Compliance
Amplify Update	Amplify	Amplify CLI announces new GraphQL transform feature for orchestrating multiple AI/ML use cases.		Serverless
Real-Time endpoint	AppSync	New features that will enhance your Real-Time experience on AWS AppSync.		Serverless
AppSync Update	AppSync	Improving GraphQL API performance and consistency with AWS AppSync Caching and DynamoDB Transactions support.		Serverless
Windows File Server Update	FSX	Multi-AZ, Support for SQL Server, Smaller Minimum Size & Data Deduplication Feature.		Storage
Replication Update	S3	Features: Replication SLA, Replication Metrics & Replication Events.		Storage
AWS CLI v2 Preview	CLI	AWS CLI v2 has new features eg. it supports AWS Single Sign-On. How to configure AWS CLI v2 for AWS SSO		General
SAM CLI Update	CLI	SAM CLI simplifies deploying serverless applications with single-command deploy.		General

Service	Description	Preview / Region availability	Category
AWS Data Exchange	A Service that makes it easy for millions of AWS customers to securely find, subscribe to, and use third-party data in the cloud.	Everywhere except Montreal, Sao Paulo, Paris, Stockholm, Bahrain, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Beihing, Ningxia
IoT SiteWise	A new managed service that makes it easy to collect and organize your data from industrial equipment at scale.	Preview - available in US West (Oregon), US East (Northern Virginia), and EU (Ireland)	Internet of Things