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
After re:Invent
Day-4
Feature | Service | Description | Preview / Region availability | Category |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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