AWS Re:invent 2019 Announcement Rundown
Dec 19, 2019I watched the 2019 Re:invent videos and read way too many blog posts from the related announcements. These are the highlights for me:
- Cloudwatch now has cross-account, cross-region dashboards. Boring, but not being able to do this was a PITA!
- Another boring but great one - more ways to save on RIs with Saving Plans.
- Compute Optimizer goes even further on the existing utilization reports to help save you money.
- EC2 Image builder tool looks like it may simplify some workflows that I usually have in ansible or packer. They are already starting to add it to Terraform.
- CodeGuru (in preview) - This is my favourite one. Automated code review, profiling, alerting you to bad practices such as concurrency issues or lack of input checks. You can hook it up to existing git repos. Anything that replaces work with a software solution is great.
- Outposts - AWS in your premises.
- ECS got ASGs and Capacity Providers, which help manage scalability and costs.
- Lambda now offers provisioned concurrency.
- S3 has an access analyzer.
- Braket - Quantum computing service.
- AWS Detective - Scan for security issues.
- IAM Access Analyzer - continuous checking of IAM policies.
- AWS Amplify on device datastore with sync. So you don't have to do a ton of work worrying about differences on/offline.
- Fargate can use EKS now.
- Sagemaker Studio - IDE for ML announced.
- Sagemaker Notebooks has some improvements, many tied to the Studio IDE.
- Sagemaker Autopilot can take your input and determine the best algorithms and parameters for your ML data. Blog Post
- Kendra - Elasticsearch, but with ML on top to get faster more accurate results and learning over time. Kendra Features
- Fraud detection service.
- Rekognition now supports custom labels so you can tag objects and train it faster. Custom labels in Rekognition
- Contact Lens for Connect is coming, enabling ML to analyze CS interactions.
- Kinesis now supports real-time two-way streaming with WebRTC. Announcement
- "Ultrawarm" ES storage that may save money over hot storage. Ultrawarm
- Fargate gets Spot just like EC2.
- Builders Library - in depth technical library written by AWS engineers.