Top Highlights from AWS re:Invent 2023

on 26 NOV 2023

in Announcements, AWS re:Invent, Featured, News

The major announcements from AWS re:Invent 2023 have concluded! Read below for a recap of all the thrilling updates from the event. To stay informed about the continuous innovations at AWS, be sure to check out these valuable resources:

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(This post was last updated: 3:57 p.m. PST, Dec. 14, 2023.)

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Analytics

Introducing Amazon Q Generative SQL in Amazon Redshift (Preview): Streamline query authoring and boost productivity by leveraging natural language for SQL code suggestions without requiring deep knowledge of your organization’s complex database metadata.
New AI-driven Scaling and Optimizations in Amazon Redshift Serverless (Preview): This enhancement uses AI techniques to automatically scale with workload changes across key dimensions, such as data volume, concurrent users, and query complexity, ensuring price performance targets are met.
Announcing Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Zero-ETL Integration with Amazon Redshift (Preview): This feature enables near real-time analytics and machine learning on vast amounts of transactional data from Amazon Aurora.
Amazon RDS for MySQL Zero-ETL Integration with Amazon Redshift (Preview): This capability allows access to transactional data from Amazon RDS for MySQL for analytics and ML on large datasets in Amazon Redshift.
Amazon DynamoDB Zero-ETL Integration with Amazon Redshift (Preview): This offers customers the ability to perform high-performance analytics on their DynamoDB data.
Highly Durable Amazon OpenSearch Service Clusters with 30% Price/Performance Improvement: Ingest, store, index, and access extensive amounts of data with a 30% improvement in price/performance, eleven nines of data durability, and a zero-time Recovery Point Objective (RPO).
AWS Clean Rooms Differential Privacy Enhances User Data Protection (Preview): Protect your users’ privacy with mathematically grounded and intuitive controls.
AWS Clean Rooms ML Enables ML Model Application Without Raw Data Sharing (Preview): This capability allows you and your partners to apply ML models on shared data without copying or sharing raw data.
Amazon OpenSearch Service Zero-ETL Integration with Amazon S3 (Preview): This new feature lets you query operational logs in Amazon S3 and S3-based data lakes without switching services.
New Generative AI Features for Amazon DataZone Simplify Data Cataloging and Discovery (Preview): Automate the traditionally labor-intensive process of data cataloging and significantly reduce the time needed to provide context for organizational data.
Analyze Large Graph Data with Amazon Neptune Analytics: This new analytics engine allows data scientists and application developers to efficiently analyze large graph datasets.
New Amazon Q in QuickSight Uses Generative AI for Faster Data Insights (Preview): Users can generate narratives that examine their data, quickly obtain executive summaries, and answer questions not covered by standard dashboards and reports.
Anomaly Detection with AWS Glue Improves Data Quality (Preview): This new capability enhances data quality by using machine learning to identify statistical anomalies and unusual patterns.
Amazon CloudWatch Logs Now Offers Automated Pattern Analytics and Anomaly Detection: CloudWatch can automatically recognize patterns among log records, extract relevant content, and notify users of anomalies using advanced ML algorithms.

Application Integration

AWS Step Functions Workflow Studio Now Available in AWS Application Composer: This integration unifies the development of workflows and application resources into a cohesive visual infrastructure as code (IaC) builder.
Throughput Increase and Dead Letter Queue Redrive Support for Amazon SQS FIFO Queues Announced: With Amazon Simple Queue Service, you can send, store, and receive messages between software components at any volume. Two new capabilities for FIFO queues have been introduced.
Manage EDI at Scale with New AWS B2B Data Interchange: Organizations can now automate and monitor the transformation of electronic data interchange-based business-critical transactions at cloud scale.

AWS Marketplace

Easily Deploy SaaS Products with New Quick Launch in AWS Marketplace: SaaS Quick Launch simplifies the deployment process, providing step-by-step instructions and resource deployment using preconfigured AWS CloudFormation templates.

Cloud Financial Management

Check Your AWS Free Tier Usage Programmatically with a New API: Utilize the API directly with the AWS Command Line Interface or integrate it into an application through AWS SDKs.
New Cost Optimization Hub Centralizes Recommended Actions to Save You Money: This new feature in AWS Billing and Cost Management aids in identifying, filtering, aggregating, and quantifying savings for AWS cost optimization recommendations.

Compute

Join the Preview for New Memory-Optimized, AWS Graviton4-Powered Amazon EC2 Instances (R8g): The new R8g instances, powered by Graviton4 processors, will deliver superior price performance compared to any existing memory-optimized instance.
Introducing Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i Instances for Large In-Memory Databases (Preview): These new U7i instances are designed for large in-memory databases, including SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

Contact Center

New Generative AI Features in Amazon Connect, Including Amazon Q, Enhance Contact Center Services: Leveraging large language models via Amazon Bedrock, these AI features aim to transform customer service in contact centers.

Container

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Collector Provides Agentless Metric Collection for Amazon EKS: This new capability automatically discovers and collects Prometheus metrics from Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) without requiring an agent.
Amazon EKS Pod Identity Simplifies IAM Permissions for Applications on Amazon EKS Clusters: This enhancement allows you to define necessary IAM permissions for applications.

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