Top Announcements of AWS re:Invent 2022

AWS VP and Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr, plus a select group of AWS Developer Advocate colleagues, have personally chosen their picks for some of the most impactful and exciting product and service launches to debut at AWS re:Invent 2022. From now through Dec. 1, we’ll update this page daily with links to their AWS News Blog posts (plus a few noteworthy preview posts) so you can dive deeper once the launches have been announced.

As always, there’s simply too much for the team to cover and even if a launch doesn’t make this list, that doesn’t mean it’s not noteworthy. Make sure to check out What’s New for a complete rundown of all the AWS re:Invent 2022 announcements.

Here are a few more resources to help you keep up with all the re:Invent news:

• The Official AWS Podcast will have keynote recaps each day and more deep dive episodes in the coming weeks.
• AWS OnAir is livestreaming directly from the show floor bringing you the latest news, announcements, launches and demos from AWS re:Invent.

Analytics | Business Applications | Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning | Compute | Containers | Database | Global Infrastructure | Management Tools |Migration & Transfer Services | Security, Identity, & Compliance | Storage |

Analytics

Preview: Amazon OpenSearch Serverless – Run Search and Analytics Workloads without Managing Clusters
This new release provisions and scales resources to deliver fast data ingestion and query responses for even the most demanding and unpredictable workloads, eliminating the need to configure and optimize clusters.

New — Create and Share Operational Reports at Scale with Amazon QuickSight Paginated Reports
This feature allows customers to create and share highly formatted, personalized reports containing business-critical data to hundreds of thousands of end-users — without any infrastructure setup or maintenance, up-front licensing, or long-term commitments.

New Amazon QuickSight API Capabilities to Accelerate Your BI Transformation
New QuickSight API capabilities allow programmatic creation and management of dashboards, analysis, and templates.

New AWS Glue 4.0 – New and Updated Engines, More Data Formats, and More
This version of Glue includes Python 3.10 and Apache Spark 3.3.0, plus native support for the Cloud Shuffle Service Plugin for Spark. It also includes Pandas support, and more.

Announcing AWS Glue for Ray (Preview)
Data engineers can use AWS Glue for Ray to process large datasets with Python and popular Python libraries.

New for Amazon Transcribe – Real-Time Analytics During Live Calls
Real-time call analytics provides APIs for developers to accurately transcribe live calls and at the same time identify customer experience issues and sentiment in real time.

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning

Classifying and Extracting Mortgage Loan Data with Amazon Textract
The new API was created in response to requests from major lenders in the industry to help them process applications faster and reduce errors, which improves the end-customer experience and lowers operating costs.

Amazon CodeWhisperer Adds Enterprise Administrative Controls, Simple Sign-up, and Support for New Languages (Preview)
Administrators can now easily integrate CodeWhisperer with their existing workforce identity solutions, provide access to users and groups, and configure organization-wide settings.

Business Applications

AWS Wickr – A Secure, End-to-End Encrypted Communication Service For Enterprises With Auditing And Regulatory Requirements
Unlike many enterprise communication tools, Wickr uses end-to-end encryption mechanisms to ensure your messages, files, voice, or video calls are solely accessible to their intended recipients.

Compute

New – Accelerate Your Lambda Functions with Lambda SnapStart
Enabling Lambda SnapStart for Java functions can make them start up to 10x faster, at no extra cost.

New – ENA Express: Improved Network Latency and Per-Flow Performance on EC2
Jeff Barr shares how ENA Express gives you a lot more per-flow bandwidth with a lot less variability.

New General Purpose, Compute Optimized, and Memory-Optimized Amazon EC2 Instances with Higher Packet-Processing Performance
The new instance families are designed to support your data-intensive workloads with the highest EBS performance in EC2, and the ability to handle up to twice as many packets per second (PPS) as earlier instances.

New Amazon EC2 Instance Types In the Works – C7gn, R7iz, and Hpc7g
Jeff Barr provides a look at three upcoming and exciting new instance types.

New – Amazon ECS Service Connect Enables Easy Communication Between Microservices
This new capability simplifies building and operating resilient distributed applications. You can add a layer of resilience to your ECS service communication and get traffic insights with no changes to your application code.

Announcing the availability of Microsoft Office Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) on Amazon EC2 with AWS provided licenses
With this offering, customers have the flexibility to run Microsoft Office dependent applications on EC2.

Containers

New – AWS Marketplace for Containers Now Supports Direct Deployment to Amazon EKS Clusters
This new launch makes it easier for you to find third-party Kubernetes operation software from the Amazon EKS console and deploy it to your EKS clusters using the same commands used to deploy EKS add-ons.

Database

New – Amazon RDS Optimized Reads and Optimized Writes
These two new features will accelerate your Amazon RDS for MySQL workloads.

New – Fully Managed Blue/Green Deployments in Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS
This new feature for Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility, Amazon RDS for MySQL, and Amazon RDS for MariaDB, enables you to make database updates safer, simpler, and faster.

Management Tools

New – AWS Config Rules Now Support Proactive Compliance
This release extends AWS Config rules to support proactive mode so that they can be run at any time before provisioning and save time spent to implement custom pre-deployment validations.

New for AWS Control Tower – Comprehensive Controls Management (Preview)
You can use the new capability to apply managed preventative, detective, and proactive controls to accounts and organizational units by service, control objective, or compliance framework.

Protect Sensitive Data with Amazon CloudWatch Logs
This new set of capabilities for Amazon CloudWatch Logs leverages pattern matching and machine learning (ML) to detect and protect sensitive log data in transit.

New – Amazon CloudWatch Cross-Account Observability
This new capability lets you search, analyze, and correlate cross-account telemetry data stored in CloudWatch such as metrics, logs, and traces.

This new capability gives visibility into how an internet issue might impact the performance and availability of your applications. It allows you to reduce the time it takes to diagnose internet issues from days to minutes.

Global Infrastructure

AWS Local Zones Now Available in Four New Metro Areas
Announcing the general availability of AWS Local Zones in Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Helsinki, and Muscat.

Migration & Transfer Services

New – A Fully Managed Schema Conversion in AWS Database Migration Service
AWS DMS Schema Conversion streamlines database migrations by making schema assessment and conversion available inside AWS DMS. You can now plan, assess, convert and migrate under one central DMS service.

AWS Application Migration Service Major Updates – New Migration Servers Grouping, Updated Launch, and Post-Launch Template
These three major updates will support your migration projects of any size.

Security, Identity & Compliance

Amazon Inspector Now Scans AWS Lambda Functions for Vulnerabilities
Until now, customers who wanted to analyze their mixed workloads (including EC2 instances, container images, and Lambda functions) against common vulnerabilities needed to use AWS and third-party tools.

Automated Data Discovery for Amazon Macie
This new capability allows you to gain visibility into where your sensitive data resides on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) at a fraction of the cost of running a full data inspection across all your S3 buckets.

AWS announces Amazon Verified Permissions (Preview)
This central fine-grained permissions management system simplifies changing and updating permission rules in a single place without needing to change the code.

Storage

New – Failover Controls for Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points
These controls let you shift S3 data access request traffic routed through an Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Point to an alternate AWS Region within minutes to test and build highly available applications for business continuity.

New – Announcing Amazon EFS Elastic Throughput
This new throughput mode is designed to provide your applications with as much throughput as they need with pay-as-you-use pricing.

New for AWS Backup – Protect and Restore Your CloudFormation Stacks
You now have an automated solution to create and restore your applications with a simplified experience, eliminating the need to manage custom scripts.

New – Amazon Redshift Support in AWS Backup
AWS Backup allows you to define a central backup policy to manage data protection of your applications and can now also protect your Amazon Redshift clusters.

Announcing Automated in-AWS Failback for AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
The new automated support provides a simplified and expedited experience to fail back Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances to the original Region, and both failover and failback processes (for on-premises or in-AWS recovery) can be conveniently started from the AWS Management Console.