I have, at long last, made it home from re:Invent yesterday afternoon. I’m not going to bother to rehash the releases; there are countless other places to get those. Instead, I want to call out some things that went really well at the conference that generally go unremarked upon.
The wifi was much better than last year. Yes, while admittedly I did have a bit of challenge uploading some 4K video on one very busy day, I can’t help but think that my use case isn’t exactly common–and is well outside the design tolerances of the network.
The event mobile app sent me a push notification about a pause in shuttle service due to a safety situation. Later we’d learn that someone was driving erratically, barricaded themselves in their vehicle for an hour or so in a standoff with the police, was arrested unharmed, and (presumably) when being led away tore off his shirt to reveal an Oracle Cloud logo as their guerrilla marketing campaign around re:Invent seeks to top itself every year. Nobody was hurt, and the push notification did its job.
Everyone I interacted with, from event staff to AWS folks to expo hall vendors to various customers? Incredibly friendly! I know it sounds weird to remark upon that, but the same can’t be said of other events.
It may be gauche to mention this, but in all three keynotes I attended (Peter DeSantis, Adam Selipsky, Swami Sivasubramanian) the speakers themselves demonstrated excellence as speakers. I’m not talking about the content, the pacing, the theming, or anything like that–as someone who’s made a craft out of speaking on stage at conferences, the public speaking element of it is incredibly technically challenging and highly intimidating. It’s clear it’s something that all three of them have focused upon, and the results absolutely show. Zero snark here–that stuff is HARD and I recognize it that way; all three have gotten to the point where they make it look easy. I promise you it’s not.
I was reminded about a uniquely Amazonian trait as well; when talking about my experiences with various services with random AWS people throughout the week, I was always met with the same response: "tell me more." It didn’t matter whether I was being complimentary, critical, or patently ridiculous; there’s a strong desire to learn more about the customer experience that’s the hallmark of AWS. It stands above and apart from the rest of the industry, and I strongly suspect that if you don’t demonstrate that curiosity melded with customer focus, you don’t stay at Amazon very long. It’s remarkably consistent!
Lastly, for the folks who came out to the co-hosted drinkup I held with RedMonk, thank you. I’ve often wondered what RedMonk and the Duckbill Group have in common. After all, they’re an analyst firm that’s developer focused (and if you’re not talking them you absolutely should be), while we fix AWS bills for a living (and if you’re not talking to us because your AWS bill isn’t a problem for you I’m deeply envious); what aligns us? The answer became remarkably clear: our respective (and in some cases shared) community is quite frankly just composed of the absolute best people. We’re incredibly fortunate to know you; every time we get to spend time with you we come away the better for it.
Enjoy the holidays; there’s much more to come.
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Podcasts
Last Week In AWS: Pre:Invent Edition
Last Week In AWS: The Releases are Coming Fast and Furious Now
Last Week In AWS: The Releases of re:Invent are in Full Swing
Screaming in the Cloud: Couchbase and the Evolving World of Databases with Perry Krug
Screaming in the Cloud: Crafting a Modern Data Protection Strategy with Sam Nicholls
Screaming in the Cloud: The Complexities of AWS Cost Optimization with Rick Ochs
Screaming in the Cloud: The Need for Speed in Time-Series Data with Brian Mullen
YouTube: pre:Invent – Day 0
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Amazon AppFlow now supports over 50 Connectors – empty
Amazon Athena now supports Apache Spark – empty
AWS announces Amazon Aurora zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift – empty
Announcing Amazon Braket Algorithm Library where you can now access pre-built quantum algorithms – empty
Amazon CloudWatch launches cross-account observability across multiple AWS accounts – empty
Announcing Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor Preview – empty
Amazon Connect announces Contact Lens agent performance evaluation forms (Preview) – empty
Amazon Connect forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling is now generally available – empty
Amazon Connect now provides step-by-step guides in agent workspace (preview) – empty
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Elastic Clusters is now generally available – empty
Announcing Amazon EC2 M6in, M6idn, R6in, and R6idn network optimized instances – empty
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Amazon ECS introduces Service Connect – empty
Announcing Elastic Throughput for Amazon Elastic File System – empty
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP doubles the maximum throughput capacity and SSD IOPS per file system – empty
Amazon GuardDuty RDS Protection now in preview – empty
Amazon Kendra launches expanded language support for semantic search – empty
Amazon Kendra launches tabular search for HTML documents – empty
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose adds support for data stream delivery to Amazon OpenSearch Serverless – empty
Amazon Macie introduces automated sensitive data discovery – empty
Introducing Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) Delivery Partners – empty
Introducing Amazon Omics – empty
Amazon QuickSight announces Paginated Reports – empty
Expanded API capabilities now generally available for Amazon QuickSight – empty
New question types for Amazon QuickSight Q – empty
Amazon QuickSight Q now supports automated data preparation – empty
Announcing Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments for safer, simpler, and faster updates – empty
Amazon RDS Optimized Reads is now available for up to 50% faster queries on Amazon RDS for MySQL – empty
Amazon RDS Optimized Writes enables up to 2x higher write throughput at no additional cost – empty
Announcing Amazon Redshift integration for Apache Spark with Amazon EMR – empty
Amazon Redshift now supports Multi-AZ (Preview) for RA3 clusters – empty
Amazon Redshift announces support for Dynamic Data Masking (Preview) – empty
Amazon Redshift now supports auto-copy from Amazon S3 – empty
Announcing preview for Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller zonal shift – empty
Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler now provides built-in data preparation in notebooks – empty
Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler now supports over 40 third-party applications as data sources – empty
Amazon SageMaker now supports geospatial ML (preview) – empty
Introducing Amazon SageMaker Ready Software Products – empty
Introducing Amazon SageMaker support for shadow testing – empty
Amazon SageMaker Studio now supports automatic conversion of notebook code to production-ready jobs – empty
Amazon SageMaker Studio launches redesigned user interface – empty
Amazon SageMaker Studio now supports real time collaboration – empty
Introducing Amazon Security Lake (Preview) – empty
Amazon Textract launches Analyze Lending to accelerate loan document processing – empty
AWS announces Amazon Verified Permissions (Preview) – empty
Announcing Amazon EC2 C7gn instances (Preview) – empty
Announcing Amazon EC2 Hpc6id instances – empty
Announcing Amazon OpenSearch Serverless (Preview) – empty
AWS announces Amazon Inspector support for AWS Lambda functions – empty
AWS announces Amazon EC2 Inf2 instances (Preview) – empty
AWS announces Amazon Redshift integration for Apache Spark – empty
AWS announces Amazon VPC Lattice (Preview) – empty
AWS announces lower latencies for Amazon Elastic File System – empty
AWS Announces Torn Write Prevention for EC2 I4i instances, EBS, and Amazon RDS – empty
AWS Application Migration Service supports application-centric migrations, wave planning, and more – empty
AWS Backup Audit Manager adds centralized reporting for AWS Organizations – empty
AWS Backup launches delegation of organization-wide backup administration – empty
AWS Backup adds legal hold capability for extended data retention beyond lifecycle policies – empty
AWS Backup introduces support for Amazon Redshift – empty
AWS CloudTrail Lake now supports configuration items from AWS Config – empty
AWS Compute Optimizer now supports external metrics from observability partners – empty
AWS Config rules now support proactive compliance – empty
Introducing account customization within AWS Control Tower – empty
Announcing comprehensive controls management with AWS Control Tower (Preview) – empty
Announcing AWS Data Exchange for Amazon S3 (Preview) – empty
Announcing AWS Data Exchange for AWS Lake Formation (Preview) – empty
Announcing Schema Conversion feature in AWS DMS – empty
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports cross-Region and cross-Availability Zone failback – empty
AWS Glue introduces custom visual transforms – empty
AWS Glue announces AWS Glue Data Quality (Preview) – empty
Announcing AWS Glue for Ray (Preview) – empty
Introducing AWS Graviton Delivery Partners – empty
AWS IoT Core announces new Device Location feature – empty
AWS IoT Device Management Jobs now supports scheduling configuration – empty
AWS IoT announces general availability for version 5 of MQTT message broker (MQTT5) – empty
AWS KMS launches External Key Store – empty
Announcing AWS Lambda SnapStart for Java functions – empty
AWS Machine Learning University announces educator enablement program for higher education – empty
AWS Marketplace for containers now supports direct deployment to EKS clusters – empty
Announcing AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights to help streamline vendor risk assessments – empty
AWS Nitro Enclaves now supports Amazon EKS and Kubernetes – empty
Announcing delegated administrator for AWS Organizations – empty
Announcing availability of AWS Outposts in Qatar, Guatemala, and Trinidad & Tobago – empty
Announcing AWS SimSpace Weaver – empty
Announcing AWS Supply Chain (Preview) – empty
Announcing the preview of AWS Verified Access – empty
Contact Lens for Amazon Connect now provides conversational analytics for chat – empty
Elastic Load Balancing capabilities for application availability – empty
Introducing Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) Express for Amazon EC2 instances – empty
Announcing the general availability of AWS Wickr – empty
Introducing Amazon EC2 C6in instances – empty
Introducing Amazon EC2 R7iz instances – empty
Introducing AWS AI Service Cards – a new resource for responsible AI – empty
Introducing AWS Glue 4.0 – empty
Introducing AWS Glue Delivery – empty
AWS Network Manager introduces real-time performance monitoring for the AWS Global Network – empty
Announcing a new generation of Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems – empty
Introducing new ML governance tools for Amazon SageMaker – empty
Announcing Trusted Language Extensions for PostgreSQL on Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS – empty
Amazon Comprehend announces support for semi-structured document processing – empty
Amazon EventBridge Pipes is now generally available – empty
Amazon GameLift now supports customer-managed compute with GameLift Anywhere – empty
Announcing Amazon CodeCatalyst (Preview) – empty
Introducing AWS Application Composer (Preview) – empty
Accelerate Machine Learning with Amazon SageMaker Ready Partners – empty
Accenture’s Unified Agent Portal on AWS Improves Customer Experience and Reduces Operational Cost – empty
Achieving Sustainable IT Through Elasticity with IBM Turbonomic and AWS – empty
Announcing the 2022 Regional and Global AWS Partners of the Year – empty
Announcing the AWS Regional 2022 Partners of the Year for Europe, Middle East, and Africa – empty
AWS Partner Profitability Framework: Deepen and Diversify Your Offerings – empty
Build Real-Time Streaming Analytics and Event-Driven Architecture with Amazon MSK Delivery Partners – empty
Centrally Manage SAP HANA Database Backup Through the AWS Backup Console – empty
Digitalize Your Factory Performance on AWS with Metrodata Electronics – empty
Discover, Prepare, and Integrate Data at Scale with AWS Glue Delivery Partners – empty
How Cognizant Built a Virtual Life Insurance Sales Environment on Unqork’s Codeless Platform – empty
How Formula 1 is Accelerating Streaming with Accenture Video Solution – empty
How Provectus Built a High-Load Data Quality Pipeline on AWS for Lane Health – empty
IBM Consulting Platform Services on AWS Supports Automated and Intelligent Cloud Operations – empty
Implement High-Quality Chatbot Solutions with AWS Conversational AI Competency Partners – empty
New AWS Partner Program Launches and Updates Announced at re:Invent 2022 – empty
Operational Analytics with MongoDB Atlas and Amazon Redshift – empty
Optimize Cost and Performance with Amazon EC2 Spot Ready Partners – empty
Optimize Price Performance for Amazon EC2 Workloads with AWS Graviton Delivery Partners – empty
Securing the 5G Network on AWS with Palo Alto Networks – empty
Teradata Vantage Real-Time API Integration with Amazon SageMaker Endpoints – empty
Understand and Prioritize Risk Amplifiers Within Your Cloud with AWS Services and Sonrai Dig – empty
How to track your cost optimization KPIs with the KPI Dashboard – empty
Trending topics from the AWS re:Invent CFM kiosk – empty
Amazon Inspector Now Scans AWS Lambda Functions for Vulnerabilities – empty
Announcing Additional Data Connectors for Amazon AppFlow – empty
Announcing Amazon CodeCatalyst (preview), a Unified Software Development Service – empty
Announcing Amazon DocumentDB Elastic Clusters – empty
Announcing AWS KMS External Key Store (XKS) – empty
Automated Data Discovery for Amazon Macie – empty
Automated in-AWS Failback for AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery – empty
AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights – Simplify Third-Party Software Risk Assessments – empty
AWS Verified Access Preview — VPN-less Secure Network Access to Corporate Applications – empty
Classifying and Extracting Mortgage Loan Data with Amazon Textract – empty
Introducing Amazon GameLift Anywhere – Run Your Game Servers on Your Own Infrastructure – empty
Introducing VPC Lattice – Simplify Networking for Service-to-Service Communication (Preview) – empty
Join the Preview – AWS Glue Data Quality – empty
New – A Fully Managed Schema Conversion in AWS Database Migration Service – empty
New – Accelerate Your Lambda Functions with Lambda SnapStart – empty
New — Amazon Athena for Apache Spark – empty
New – Amazon CloudWatch Cross-Account Observability – empty
New – Amazon EC2 Hpc6id Instances Optimized for High Performance Computing – empty
New Amazon EC2 Instance Types In the Works – C7gn, R7iz, and Hpc7g – empty
New – Amazon ECS Service Connect Enabling Easy Communication Between Microservices – empty
New Amazon QuickSight API Capabilities to Accelerate Your BI Transformation – empty
New – Amazon RDS Optimized Reads and Optimized Writes – empty
New – Amazon Redshift Integration with Apache Spark – empty
New – Amazon Redshift Support in AWS Backup – empty
New — Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler Supports SaaS Applications as Data Sources – empty
New – Announcing Amazon EFS Elastic Throughput – empty
New – Announcing Automated Data Preparation for Amazon QuickSight Q – empty
New – AWS Config Rules Now Support Proactive Compliance – empty
New AWS Glue 4.0 – New and Updated Engines, More Data Formats, and More – empty
New – AWS Marketplace for Containers Now Supports Direct Deployment to Amazon EKS Clusters – empty
New AWS SimSpace Weaver–Run Large-Scale Spatial Simulations in the Cloud – empty
New — Create and Share Operational Reports at Scale with Amazon QuickSight Paginated Reports – empty
New – ENA Express: Improved Network Latency and Per-Flow Performance on EC2 – empty
New – Failover Controls for Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points – empty
New for Amazon Transcribe – Real-Time Analytics During Live Calls – empty
New for AWS Backup – Protect and Restore Your CloudFormation Stacks – empty
New for AWS Control Tower – Comprehensive Controls Management (Preview) – empty
New – Fully Managed Blue/Green Deployments in Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS – empty
New — Introducing Support for Real-Time and Batch Inference in Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler – empty
New – Redesigned UI for Amazon SageMaker Studio – empty
New – Trusted Language Extensions for PostgreSQL on Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS – empty
Now – Process PDFs, Word Documents, and Images with Amazon Comprehend for IDP – empty
Preview: Amazon OpenSearch Serverless – Run Search and Analytics Workloads without Managing Clusters – empty
Preview: Amazon Security Lake – A Purpose-Built Customer-Owned Data Lake Service – empty
Preview: Use Amazon SageMaker to Build, Train, and Deploy ML Models Using Geospatial Data – empty
Protect Sensitive Data with Amazon CloudWatch Logs – empty
Step Functions Distributed Map – A Serverless Solution for Large-Scale Parallel Data Processing – empty
Top Announcements of AWS re:Invent 2022 – empty
AWS Marketplace at re:Invent: Know before you go – empty
AWS Marketplace re:Invent sessions, December 1 – empty
AWS Marketplace re:Invent sessions, November 28 – empty
AWS Marketplace re:Invent sessions, November 29 – empty
AWS Marketplace re:Invent sessions, November 30 – empty
Using Cribl Stream on AWS Control Tower with Account Factory Customization – empty
Integrating third-party data into your data mesh – empty
Centrally manage access and permissions for Amazon Redshift data sharing with AWS Lake Formation – empty
Create advanced insights using level-aware calculations in Amazon QuickSight – empty
Data: The genesis for modern invention – empty
Explore your data lake using Amazon Athena for Apache Spark – empty
Introducing AWS Glue with Ray: Scaling your data integration workloads using Python – empty
Introducing the Cloud Shuffle Storage Plugin for Apache Spark – empty
Log analytics the easy way with Amazon OpenSearch Serverless – empty
New analytical questions available in Amazon QuickSight Q: “Why” and “Forecast” – empty
Run queries concurrently and see query history using Amazon Redshift Query Editor v2 – empty
Scale AWS SDK for pandas workloads with AWS Glue for Ray – empty
Simplify data loading on the Amazon Redshift console with Informatica Data Loader – empty
AWS Announces AWS Supply Chain – empty
AWS Local Zones and AWS Outposts, choosing the right technology for your edge workload – empty
Enabling load-balancing of non-HTTP(s) traffic on AWS Wavelength – empty
Introducing new AWS Serverless digital learning badges – empty
Monitoring shared AWS Outposts rack capacity – empty
Reducing Java cold starts on AWS Lambda functions with SnapStart – empty
Starting up faster with AWS Lambda SnapStart – empty
Visualize and create your serverless workloads with AWS Application Composer – empty
Build a multi-region resilient contact center with Amazon Connect global resiliency – empty
Create, update, and check the status of Amazon Connect Cases using Amazon Connect Contact Flows – empty
Getting started with step-by-step guides for the Amazon Connect agent workspace – empty
Leverage conversational analytics for chat interactions using Contact Lens for Amazon Connect – empty
Happy 5th birthday, AWS Fargate! – empty
Kubernetes Sessions at AWS re:Invent 2022 – empty
Managing Pod Security on Amazon EKS with Kyverno – empty
Microservices development using AWS controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) and Amazon EKS blueprints – empty
Transparent encryption of node to node traffic on Amazon EKS using WireGuard and Cilium – empty
Simplify managing access to Amazon ElastiCache for Redis clusters with IAM – empty
AWS EUC @re:Invent: Create an online software trial with Amazon AppStream 2.0 – empty
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AWS EUC @re:Invent: What is Amazon WorkSpaces Core? – empty
BloomIP Automatically Identifies production issues with Amazon DevOps Guru – empty
New AWS Survey Finds Cloud Solutions Are Top Of Mind for Game Developers in 2023 – empty
Accelerate embedded software development using QNX® Neutrino® OS on Amazon EC2 GravitonAWS – empty
Accelerating SDV development with KPIT Cloud-Native Engineering Workbench on AWS – empty
Amazon HealthLake Imaging Partners – empty
Amazon Omics launches with broad support from ISV and Consulting Partners – empty
Automated End-to-End Genomics Data Storage and Analysis using Amazon Omics – empty
Epic Games launches RealityScan app on AWS; announces 2M MetaHumans milestone at re:Invent – empty
Part 1: Introducing Amazon Omics—from sequence data to insights, securely and at scale – empty
Introducing new MQTTv5 features for AWS IoT Core to help build flexible architecture patterns – empty
Introducing the new AWS IoT Core Device Location feature to support Asset Tracking solutions – empty
AI21 Jurassic-1 foundation model is now available on Amazon SageMaker – empty
AWS Unveils New AI Service Features and Enhancements at re:Invent 2022 – empty
Build an agronomic data platform with Amazon SageMaker geospatial capabilities – empty
Define customized permissions in minutes with Amazon SageMaker Role Manager – empty
Deploy an MLOps solution that hosts your model endpoints in AWS Lambda – empty
Illustrative notebooks in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart – empty
Improve governance of your machine learning models with Amazon SageMaker – empty
Interactive data prep widget for notebooks powered by Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler – empty
Introducing Amazon Kendra tabular search for HTML Documents – empty
Introducing AWS AI Service Cards: A new resource to enhance transparency and advance responsible AI – empty
Minimize the production impact of ML model updates with Amazon SageMaker shadow testing – empty
Operationalize your Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks as scheduled notebook jobs – empty
Optimize hyperparameters with Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning – empty
Protecting Consumers and Promoting Innovation – AI Regulation and Building Trust in Responsible AI – empty
Run notebooks as batch jobs in Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab – empty
Separate lines of business or teams with multiple Amazon SageMaker domains – empty
Stability AI builds foundation models on Amazon SageMaker – empty
Jon Landau, Academy Award-winning producer, and David Conley of Weta FX join AWS at re:Invent – empty
Use AWS CDK v2 with the AWS Amplify CLI extensibility features (beta) – empty
Announcing AWS CloudTrail Lake integration with AWS Config – empty
AWS Service Catalog Account Factory-Enhanced – empty
Build EC2 Image Builder container images locally – empty
How to import migrated Amazon EC2 instances into infrastructure code – empty
What’s new in AWS Observability at re:Invent 2022 – empty
Implementing long-running TCP Connections within VPC networking – empty
Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor – empty
Rapidly recover from application failures in a single AZ – empty
Amazon and George Mason University collaborate to deliver new innovations in education and research – empty
Announcing the 2022-2023 AWS IMAGINE Grant winners – empty
Protect critical services with new Continuity of Government IT on AWS solution guide – empty
Now available: New AWS program supporting nonprofit donor and member engagement – empty
Introducing the Amazon Braket Algorithm Library – empty
Quantum Monte Carlo on Quantum Computers – empty
Suppressing errors with dynamical decoupling using pulse control on Amazon Braket – empty
ANT61 accelerates reinforcement learning for space robots using AWS – empty
AWS Digital Sovereignty Pledge: Control without compromise – empty
Deploy AWS Organizations resources by using CloudFormation – empty
Get the best out of Amazon Verified Permissions by using fine-grained authorization methods – empty
How to use Amazon Macie to preview sensitive data in S3 buckets – empty
Use Amazon Macie for automatic, continual, and cost-effective discovery of sensitive data in S3 – empty
Dive into interactive learning built for your industry with AWS Industry Quest – empty
Upskilling Asia Pacific to stay competitive in the digital economy – empty
Tools
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… and that’s what happened Last Week in AWS.
