Top Highlights from AWS re:Invent 2022

AWS Vice President and Chief Evangelist Mark Jensen, along with a dedicated team of AWS Developer Advocates, has curated a selection of the most impactful and thrilling product and service launches unveiled at AWS re:Invent 2022. Below, you’ll find links to their blog posts on AWS News (alongside a few significant What’s New announcements) for a deeper dive into the newly revealed features. As always, the breadth of announcements means there’s plenty more to explore, so be sure to check out What’s New for a comprehensive overview of all AWS re:Invent 2022 updates.

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(This post was last updated: 10:46 a.m. PST, Dec. 1, 2022.)

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Analytics

Amazon Redshift Enhancements: This year at re:Invent, Amazon Redshift introduced several features aimed at simplifying data ingestion and achieving insights quickly in a secure and reliable environment.
Additional Connectors for Amazon AppFlow: We added 22 new data connectors for Amazon AppFlow, spanning marketing, customer service, and operational needs.
AWS Glue Data Quality Preview: This new capability analyzes your tables and recommends rules automatically based on its findings.
Amazon Athena for Apache Spark: This allows users to run Apache Spark workloads using Jupyter Notebook for data processing and interact programmatically through Athena APIs.
Automated Data Preparation with Amazon QuickSight Q: This feature employs machine learning to infer and add metadata about fields in datasets, enhancing your ability to prepare data for natural language queries.
Streaming Ingestion for Redshift: Amazon Redshift now supports native ingestion of significant data volumes from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams and Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka.
Amazon Security Lake Preview: This service centralizes security data from both cloud and on-premises sources into a customer-owned data lake.
Integration of Redshift with Apache Spark: This update facilitates the construction and execution of Spark applications on Amazon Redshift, enabling broader analytics and machine learning solutions.
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless Preview: This service provisions and scales resources to manage demanding workloads without the hassle of cluster management.
Amazon QuickSight Paginated Reports: Create and share formatted reports containing critical business data to a vast number of users without needing infrastructure setup or long-term commitments.
Enhanced QuickSight API Capabilities: New API features allow for programmatic creation and management of dashboards, analyses, and templates.
AWS Glue 4.0: The latest version includes updated engines, support for more data formats, and a range of enhancements.
AWS Glue for Ray Preview: Data engineers can process large datasets with Python using popular libraries.
Real-Time Analytics for Amazon Transcribe: This feature provides APIs to transcribe live calls while identifying customer experience issues and sentiment in real-time.

Application Integration

Amazon EventBridge Pipes: Create point-to-point integrations between event producers and consumers with this new feature, enabling reliable and cost-effective application integration.
Step Functions Distributed Map: A serverless solution for large-scale parallel data processing allows launching up to ten thousand workflows simultaneously.

AWS Marketplace

Vendor Insights: This new capability simplifies third-party software risk assessments by consolidating security and compliance information in a single dashboard.

Business Applications

AWS Wickr: A secure communication service for enterprises that ensures end-to-end encryption, suitable for organizations with regulatory requirements.

Compute

AWS SimSpace Weaver: Run large-scale spatial simulations on the cloud across multiple EC2 instances, supporting simulations of over a million entities.
Lambda SnapStart: This feature can accelerate the startup of Java functions by up to 10x, without additional costs.
ENA Express: Offers improved network latency and performance for EC2, providing more bandwidth with reduced variability.
New EC2 Instance Families: Enhance performance for data-intensive workloads with higher EBS performance and increased packet-processing capabilities.
Upcoming EC2 Instance Types: A preview of new instance types C7gn, R7iz, and Hpc7g.
Amazon ECS Service Connect: Simplifies communication between microservices, enhancing resilience without requiring code changes.

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