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re:Invent 2020 - Andy Jassy Keynote and Announcements
By Malcolm van Staden on 1st December 2020
This is the first re:Invent session I was able to attend live albeit not in person - probably because it is free and virtual for the next few weeks (like whose European company pays for a jolly to Vegas?!). So this is my summary from the announcements made in today's (lengthy) keynote (complete with fake audiance applauses 🙈) and announcements via other channels.
I've labelled the ones I'm personally excited about with a ⭐
Compute
- New – Use Amazon EC2 Mac Instances to Build and Test macOS, iOS, ipadOS, tvOS, and watchOS Apps
- Coming Soon – Amazon EC2 G4ad Instances Featuring AMD GPUs for Graphics Workloads
- New EC2 C6gn Instances – 100 Gbps Networking with AWS Graviton2 Processors
- EC2 Update – D3 / D3en Dense Storage Instances
- New – Amazon EC2 R5b Instances Provide 3x Higher EBS Performance
- In the Works – 3 More AWS Local Zones in 2020, and 12 More in 2021
Serverless
- New for AWS Lambda – 1ms Billing Granularity Adds Cost Savings ⭐
- New for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support ⭐
- AWS Lambda now supports up to 10 GB of memory and 6 vCPU cores for Lambda Functions ⭐
- Amazon EKS Distro: The Kubernetes Distribution Used by Amazon EKS
Containers
- Amazon ECR Public: A New Public Container Registry ⭐
- Preview of AWS Proton – Automated Management for Container and Serverless Deployments ⭐
Storage
- Now in Preview – Larger and Faster io2 Block Express EBS Volumes with Higher Throughput
- New – Amazon EBS gp3 Volume Lets You Provision Performance Apart From Capacity ⭐
Databases
Machine Learning
- New – Amazon QuickSight Q Answers Natural-Language Questions About Business Data
- New - Amazon DevOps Guru Helps Identify Application Errors and Fixes ⭐
- Amazon Lookout for Equipment Analyzes Historical Sensor Data to Help Detect Equipment Failure
- Amazon Lookout for Vision Simplifies Defect Detection for Manufacturing
- AWS Panorama Appliance – Bringing Computer Vision Applications to the Edge
- Amazon Monitron is a Simple and Cost-Effective Service Enabling Predictive Maintenance
Source: AWS re:Invent: Top Announcements for 2020 (as on 2020-12-01)
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