AWS

re:invent recap 2018

Nov 26th - Nov 30th 2018 - Las Vegas, NV

Jason Poley Cloud Architect

Overview

over 1,500 breakout sessions (across 14 hotels)

  • industry pre-day
  • bootcamps, workshops, chalk talks, builder sessions, hands on labs
  • hackathon, game day, security jam, iot hackathon, alexa hackathon
  • skills sessions, spotlight labs, certifications

  • Serverless

  • Application Load Balancer can now Invoke Lambda Functions to Serve HTTP(S) Requests
  • AWS Step Functions Adds Eight More Service Integrations
  • AWS Serverless Application Model Supports Nested Applications Using the AWS Serverless Application Repository
  • AWS Lambda Supports Ruby
  • AWS Lambda Now Supports Custom Runtimes and Enables Sharing Common Code Between Functions

  • AI/ML/Analytics

  • AWS-Optimized TensorFlow Now Scales to 256 GPUs
  • Amazon Elastic Inference
  • Amazon Forecast – Now in Preview
  • AWS DeepRacer
  • Amazon Textract: Now in Preview—easily extract text and data from virtually any document
  • Reinforcement Learning Support with Amazon SageMaker RL
  • Amazon SageMaker Neo
  • Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth
  • Amazon Comprehend Medical: A natural language processing service for medical text
  • Amazon Translate Now Supports Customized Translations
  • AWS announces ML Insights (preview) for Amazon QuickSight
  • Amazon QuickSight adds support for dashboard embedding and APIs
  • AWS RoboMaker
  • Dynamic Training for Deep Learning

  • Security & Networking

  • AWS Security Hub
  • AWS Key Management Service (KMS) Custom Key Store
  • AWS App Mesh - Service Mesh for Microservices on AWS
  • AWS Global Accelerator
  • AWS Transit Gateway
  • AWS Transfer for SFTP, a Fully Managed SFTP Service for Amazon S3
  • AWS DataSync: A Service to Simplify, Automate, and Accelerate Online Data Transfer

  • Database & Storage

  • Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)
  • Amazon Managed Blockchain
  • Amazon Timestream – Fast, Scalable, Fully Managed Time Series Database
  • Amazon DynamoDB On-Demand
  • Amazon DynamoDB Support for Transactions
  • Amazon Aurora Global Database

  • Storage

  • Amazon S3 Introduces S3 Batch Operations (Preview) for Object Management
  • S3 Intelligent-Tiering — a New Amazon S3 Storage Class
  • Amazon EFS Infrequent Access Storage Class
  • Amazon S3 Object Lock in all AWS Regions
  • S3 Glacier Deep Archive for Long-Term Data Retention
  • Amazon EFS now Supports 1000 File Systems per Account
  • Amazon EFS now Supports Access Across Accounts and VPCs
  • AWS Announces New Amazon S3 Features that Simplify the Use of the Amazon S3 Glacier Storage Class for Archival Workloads in All AWS Regions

  • Compute

  • Amazon EC2 A1 Instances Powered By New Arm-based AWS Graviton Processors
  • Amazon EC2 C5n Instances Featuring 100 Gbps of Network Bandwidth
  • Amazon EC2 Now Lets you Pause and Resume Your Workloads
  • Amazon EBS Doubles the Maximum Performance of Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1) Volumes
  • AWS Inferentia: Machine Learning Inference Chip
  • Amazon Lightsail Now Provides an Upgrade Path to EC2
  • Amazon Lightsail Now Supports Resource Tagging

  • IoT

  • AWS IoT Events
  • AWS IoT Device Tester
  • AWS IoT SiteWise
  • AWS IoT Things Graph
  • Amazon FreeRTOS Adds New Features
  • AWS IoT Greengrass Extends Functionality with Connectors to External Applications, Hardware Root of Trust Security, and Isolation Configurations
  • AWS IoT Greengrass Now Supports Amazon SageMaker Neo and ML Inference Connectors on Edge Devices
  • AWS IoT Service Delivery Program

  • Marketplace / Architecture / Licensing

  • AWS Marketplace Makes It Easier to Govern Software Procurement with Private Marketplace
  • AWS Announces New Container Products in AWS Marketplace
  • AWS-License-Manager
  • AWS Marketplace Makes it Easier to Build Machine Learning Applications on Amazon SageMaker
  • AWS Well-Architected Tool

  • on Premises / Open Source

  • AWS Outposts
  • the Public Preview of Amazon RDS on VMware
  • Firecracker, a New Virtualization Technology and Open Source Project for Running Multi-Tenant Container Workloads
  • AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized Is Now Generally Available

  • Apps & More

  • Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics Now Supports Java-based Stream Processing Applications
  • Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (Amazon MSK)
  • AWS Cloud Map
  • AWS Fargate, Amazon EKS, and Amazon ECS now integrate with AWS Cloud Map
  • The AWS Developer Tools Improve Continuous Delivery Support for AWS Fargate and Amazon ECS
  • AWS Elemental MediaConnect
  • Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights – Fast, Interactive Log Analytics
  • AWS Amplify Console

  • Key Things in December

  • Amazon Virtual Private Clouds can now be shared with other AWS Accounts
  • Amazon MQ Now Supports PCI and ISO Compliance Programs
  • Amazon ECR Console Version 2
  • AWS Service Catalog Announces Integration with AWS Organizations

  • AWS Resources