AWS re:Invent 2020 What's New

💻 Compute

Serverless

Containers

ECS

Amazon ECS Cluster Auto Scaling now offers more responsive scaling

💾 Storage

🗄️ Databases

RDS

PostreSQL

SQL

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports the Business Intelligence Suite on SQL Server 2019

Amazon ECS adds support for P4d instance types

Lambda

Now supports batch windows of up to 5 minutes for functions with Amazon SQS as an event source

🧠 Machine Learning

Comprehend

AWS announces the launch of Amazon Comprehend Events

🧑🏽‍💼 Management & Governance

AWS Config

✏️ AWS Config now supports organization-wide resource data aggregation in a delegated administrator account

FSx

Amazon FSx for Lustre now enables you to grow storage on your file systems with the click of a button ✏️

📈 Analytics

ElasticSearch

Amazon Elasticsearch Service adds Gantt charts for visualizing events, steps and tasks

🔐 Security, Identity & Compliance

AWS Secrets Manager

Now supports 5000 requests per second for the GetSecretValue API operation

Glue

AWS Glue now supports workload partitioning to further improve the reliability of Spark applications

Single Sign On (SSO)

AWS Single Sign-On enables attribute-based access control for workforce users to simplify permissions in AWS

Now supports Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2)

Storage Gateway

AWS Storage Gateway now supports IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.10 on Tape Gateway

😀 Customer Engagement

Pinpoint

Introducing Location-Based Notifications Using Amazon Pinpoint

📝 Application Integration

EventBridge

Amazon EventBridge adds Server-Side Encryption (SSE) and increases default quotas

EKS

AWS App2Container now supports authenticated Windows applications deployment to EKS and Custom AWS Profiles

CloudFormation

Announcing Modules for AWS CloudFormation

CloudHSM

Managed Backup Retention for AWS CloudHSM

PostgreSQL 13 now available in Amazon RDS Database preview environment

✏️ Amazon ECS Cluster Auto Scaling now supports specifying a custom instance warm-up time

Amazon ECS Capacity Providers Now Support Update Functionality

Batch

AWS Batch now has integrated Amazon Linux 2 support

☁️ Migration & Transfer

AWS Transfer Family

AWS Transfer Family supports AWS WAF for identity provider integrations

CodeGuru

Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer announces CodeQuality Detector to help manage technical debt and codebase maintainability

AWS Systems Manager

AWS Systems Manager Change Calendar integrates with Amazon EventBridge to enable automated actions based on calendar state changes

EC2

Instance Types

Announcing Amazon EC2 Mac instances for macOS

You now can use Amazon DynamoDB with AWS Glue Elastic Views to combine and replicate data across multiple data stores by using SQL (Preview)

✏️ Amazon EKS Console Now Includes Kubernetes Resources to Simplify Cluster Management

✏️ Now supports container images as a packaging format

D3 and D3en, the next generation of dense HDD storage instances

AWS Lookout for Vision (NEW 🌟)

AWS announces Amazon Lookout for Vision to automate quality inspection

R5b instances featuring 60 Gbps of EBS Bandwidth and 260K IOPS

EBS

io2

AWS quadruples per-volume maximum capacity and performance on io2 volumes (in preview)

DevOps Guru (NEW 🌟)

AWS announces Amazon DevOps Guru in Preview, an ML-powered cloud operations service to improve application availability for AWS workloads ✏️

AWS Lookout for Equipment (NEW 🌟)

Announcing Amazon Lookout for Equipment, a service which detects abnormal equipment behavior and enable predictive maintenance

AppFlow

Amazon AppFlow now provides Amazon Connect Customer Profiles connectivity to several cloud applications

AWS Panorama (NEW 🌟)

Introducing AWS Panorama for computer vision at the edge

S3

Amazon S3 Replication adds support for multiple destinations in the same, or different AWS Regions ✏️

ECR

✏️ Announcing Amazon ECR Public and Amazon ECR Public Gallery

Amazon S3 Bucket Keys reduce the costs of Server-Side Encryption with AWS Key Management Service (SSE-KMS) ✏️

AWS announces tiered pricing for input/output operations per second (IOPS) charges for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) io2 volume, reducing the cost of provisioning peak IOPS by 15%

Aurora

Introducing the next version of Amazon Aurora Serverless (Preview) ✏️

Amazon S3 now delivers strong read-after-write consistency automatically for all applications ✏️

Amazon EKS adds support for EC2 Spot Instances in managed node groups

Amazon Connect

Amazon Connect Tasks makes it easy to prioritize, assign, track, and automate contact center agent tasks

Amazon S3 Replication adds support for two-way replication ✏️

QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight launches new session capacity pricing options, embedding without user management and a developer portal for embedded analytics

M5zn instances, with high frequency processors and 100 Gbps networking

RedShift

AWS announces AQUA for Amazon Redshift (Preview)

🏢 Business Applications

Honeycode

Integrate Amazon Honeycode with popular SaaS applications, AWS services, and more

✏️ AWS Lambda changes duration billing granularity from 100ms down to 1ms

Proton (NEW 🌟)

✏️ Amazon Web Services Announces AWS Proton

Monitron (NEW 🌟)

Introducing Amazon Monitron, an end-to-end system to detect abnormal equipment behavior

Amazon Connect Voice ID provides real-time caller authentication for more secure calls

🧑‍💻 End User Computing

Workspaces

Amazon WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol now Generally Available

Announcing AWS Glue Elastic Views Preview

Amazon EKS adds built-in logging support for AWS Fargate

Introducing Amazon EKS Distro - an open source Kubernetes distribution used by Amazon EKS

Amazon EKS simplifies installation and management for Kubernetes cluster add-ons

✏️ AWS Lambda now supports up to 10 GB of memory and 6 vCPU cores for Lambda Functions

Babelfish (NEW- Preview 🌟)

Babelfish for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL is Available for Preview ✏️

Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer announces Security Detectors to help improve code security

Contact Lens for Amazon Connect launches real-time contact center analytics to detect customer issues on live calls

GP3 (NEW 🌟)

Introducing new Amazon EBS general purpose volumes, gp3 ✏️

Amazon AppFlow now provides Amazon Honeycode connectivity to several cloud applications

Introducing Amazon QuickSight Q: ask questions about your data and get answers in seconds (NEW 🌟)

AWS Snow Family

Snowcone

Announcing Three New Digital Courses for AWS Snowcone

Well Architected Framework

AWS Foundational Technical Review Lens now available in the AWS Well-Architected Tool

AWS License Manager

AWS License Manager announces Managed Entitlements for AWS Marketplace

Compute Optimizer

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports Amazon EBS volume recommendations

💸 AWS Cost Management

Marketplace Subscriptions

Professional Services for third-party software now available in AWS Marketplace

CloudWatch

Announcing Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights (General Availability)

Serverless Batch Scheduling with AWS Batch and AWS Fargate

AWS License Manager enhances automated discovery with tag-based search and detection of software uninstalls

AWS Well-Architected Tool now Supports AWS SaaS Lens

Service Catalog

Customers can now use AWS Service Catalog AppRegistry to define and describe their AWS applications

Amazon RDS for Oracle and Amazon RDS for SQL Server now support R5b instance types in additional AWS Regions

Python Support for Amazon CodeGuru is available in preview

Amazon ECS Announces the Preview of ECS Deployment Circuit Breaker

Oracle

Amazon RDS for Oracle supports managed disaster recovery (DR) with Amazon RDS Cross-Region Automated Backups

🌎 Networking & Content Delivery

API Gateway

Amazon API Gateway now supports integration with Step Functions StartSyncExecution for HTTP APIs

CloudTrail

AWS CloudTrail provides more granular control of data event logging through advanced event selectors

AMIs

Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) now support tag-on-create and tag-based access control

Security Hub

AWS Security Hub adds open source tool integrations with Kube-bench and Cloud Custodian

🚀 Quantum Technologies

Braket

Amazon Braket tensor network simulator supports 50-qubit quantum circuits

SageMaker

Introducing Amazon SageMaker Pipelines, first purpose built CI/CD service for machine learning ✏️

Introducing distributed training on Amazon SageMaker

Amazon AppFlow now provides Amazon Lookout for Metrics connectivity to several cloud applications

AWS introduces Amazon SageMaker Edge Manager - Model Management for Edge Devices

Kendra

Amazon Kendra launches incremental learning

HealthLake (NEW 🌟)

Introducing Amazon HealthLake to make sense of health data

AWS announces Amazon Redshift ML (NEW - Preview 🌟)

Detect bias in ML models and explain model behavior with Amazon SageMaker Clarify

Neptune

Amazon announces Amazon Neptune ML: easy, fast, and accurate predictions for graphs

✏️ Amazon ECR announces cross region replication of images

AWS Security Hub integrates with AWS Audit Manager for simplified security posture management

Amazon Braket now supports PennyLane

Introducing Amazon SageMaker Feature Store - a fully managed repository to store, discover, share and serve machine learning features ✏️

Announcing new capabilities for Amazon SageMaker Debugger with real-time monitoring of system resources and profiling training jobs

Amazon Kendra launches connector library

Introducing Amazon SageMaker JumpStart – Easily and quickly bring machine learning applications to market

Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor now supports new capabilities to maintain model quality in production

AWS Lookout for Metrics (NEW 🌟)

Announcing Amazon Lookout for Metrics

Introducing Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler – The fastest and easiest way to prepare data for machine learning

Audit Manager (NEW 🌟)

✏️ AWS announces AWS Audit Manager

Amazon Kendra adds Google Drive connector

Amazon CodeGuru Profiler adds Memory Profiling and Heap Summary

Forecast

Announcing Amazon Forecast Weather Index – automatically include local weather to increase your forecasting model accuracy

Database Migration Service

AWS Database Migration Service now supports Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless as a target

Amazon Redshift announces Automatic Table Optimization

Amazon Redshift now includes Amazon RDS for MySQL and Amazon Aurora MySQL databases as new data sources for federated querying (Preview)

Amazon Redshift launches the ability to easily move clusters between AWS Availability Zones (AZs)

G4ad instances, powered by AMD Radeon Pro V520 GPUs

Lake Formation

Announcing preview of AWS Lake Formation features: Transactions, Row-level Security, and Acceleration

EMR

Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS

Simplify running Apache Spark jobs with Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS

Global Accelerator

AWS Global Accelerator launches custom routing

Amazon EMR Studio makes it easier for data scientists to build and deploy code

Amazon Redshift announces native console integration with partners (Preview)

Amazon Redshift announces support for native JSON and semi-structured data processing (Preview)

Amazon Redshift introduces data sharing (Preview)

Amazon Redshift launches RA3.xlplus nodes with managed storage

✏️ New network performance metrics for EC2 instances

Transit Gateway

✏️ Introducing AWS Transit Gateway Connect to simplify SD-WAN branch connectivity

AWS Transit Gateway now supports Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) for simplified deployment and management of multicast applications

Amazon Kendra adds support for custom synonyms

VPC

✏️ Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) announces Reachability Analyzer to simplify connectivity testing and troubleshooting

📱 Front-end Web & Mobile

Amplify

Amplify CLI enables serverless container deployments using AWS Fargate

Amazon QuickSight now supports Amazon Elasticsearch Service, and adds new box plot and filled map visuals

Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 11.9, 10.14, and 9.6.19

🖥️ Developer Tools

AWS IDE Toolkit now available for AWS Cloud9

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Integrates with AWS Lambda ✏️

AWS Security Hub now supports bidirectional integration with ServiceNow ITSM

Spot Instances

Amazon EC2 announces Spot Blueprints, an infrastructure code template generator to get started with EC2 Spot Instances

Management Console

Announcing Unified Search in the AWS Management Console

Now Secure Your SageMaker Studio Access Using AWS PrivateLink and AWS IAM SourceIP Restrictions ✏️

🤖 IoT

FreeRTOS adds cellular LTE-M interface library to support cellular IoT based applications

AWS Single Sign-On now supports Microsoft Active Directory (AD) synchronization

Manage Microsoft SQL Server workloads on Amazon EC2 using Application Manager capability in AWS Systems Manager

Enhanced error handling capabilities in AWS IoT Analytics data processing pipelines

✏️ Introducing AWS Systems Manager Application Manager (NEW 🌟)

AWS IoT Analytics can now store processed IoT data in data stores using Apache Parquet format

Managed Service for Grafana

AWS announces Amazon Managed Service for Grafana in Preview (NEW - Preview 🌟)

AWS IoT Greengrass 2.0 provides an open source edge runtime and new capabilities for building and operating IoT device software

AWS Lambda launches checkpointing for Amazon Kinesis and Amazon DynamoDB Streams

AWS Lambda now makes it easier to build analytics for Amazon Kinesis and Amazon DynamoDB Streams

AWS Lambda now supports self-managed Apache Kafka as an event source

Announcing support for Alarms (Preview) in AWS IoT Events and AWS IoT SiteWise

AWS IoT Device Defender adds support for custom metrics

✏️ Introducing AWS Systems Manager Change Manager

Announcing AWS IoT SiteWise Edge (Preview), a new capability of AWS IoT SiteWise to collect, process, and monitor industrial equipment data on-premises

AWS IoT Device Management introduces Fleet Hub, a new, easy way to monitor and interact with IoT device fleets

Announcing Amazon Sidewalk Integration for AWS IoT Core

✏️ Introducing AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager

Introducing AWS IoT SiteWise plugin for Grafana

Introducing AWS IoT EduKit

AWS IoT Core adds the ability to deliver data to Apache Kafka clusters

AWS IoT Core Device Advisor now available in preview

AWS Personal Health Dashboard now supports organization-wide event aggregation

AWS CloudShell (NEW 🌟)

✏️ Introducing AWS CloudShell

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP) (NEW 🌟)

✏️ AWS announces Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus for container monitoring

AWS Cost Anomaly Detection

AWS Cost Anomaly Detection is now generally available

Amazon Location Service (NEW - Preview 🌟)

AWS announces Amazon Location Service (Preview)

✏️ APIs now available for the AWS Well-Architected Tool

Route53

Announcing Amazon Route 53 support for DNSSEC

Introducing Amazon SageMaker ml.P4d instances for highest performance ML training in the cloud

AWS Well-Architected Guidance Engine now available in AWS Control Tower

Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager now automates copying EBS snapshots across accounts

EC2 Image Builder

✏️ EC2 Image Builder now supports container images

KMS

✏️ Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) for the AWS Key Management Service

Amazon FSx now supports on-premises access from additional IP address ranges

AWS Lambda now supports SASL/SCRAM authentication for functions triggered from Amazon MSK

Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds Deep Learning Models

C6gn instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors with 100 Gbps networking (NEW 🌟)

Introducing Distributed Load Testing v1.2 ✏️

AWS Fault Injection Simulator (NEW 🌟) ✏️

AWS Fault Injection Simulator (coming in 2021)

Amazon AppFlow now stores credentials in customers’ AWS Secrets Manager account

SQS

Amazon SQS Now Supports a High Throughput Mode for FIFO Queues (Preview)