Reinvent recap
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The AWS re:Invent 2016 conference saw over 32,000 attendees and featured over 400 breakout sessions across specialized tracks. There were also over 4 hours of keynotes announcing 15 or more completely new AWS services as well as enhancements to many existing services. Some of the major new services included Amazon Polly for text-to-speech, Amazon Lex for building conversational interfaces, Amazon Rekognition for image analysis, and Amazon Athena for interactive SQL queries on S3 data. A wide range of other services were also announced or improved.
Reinvent recap
- 1. AWS re:Invent 2016 recap Jason Poley Barclaycard / Entech jpoley@entech.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonpoley
- 2. Summary… ~ 400 breakout sessions with specialized tracks Over 4 hours of Keynotes Over 32,000 attendees 15+ completely new services many existing services got enhanced features
- 3. Overview of Events… Hackathon Security Jam GameDay Industry Pre-Day Certifications Labs Bootcamps Breakout Sessions Global Partner Summit Mini Con Tuesday Night Live (James Hamilton) Keynotes Workshops 5k run Pub Crawl re:play Party Executive Track Executive Briefing Centers Sessions
- 4. AWS Announcements… Polly Lex Rekognition Batch Glue Pinpoint Greengrass Athena OpsWorks Chef Automate CodeBuild X-Ray Shield Lambda@Edge Step Functions Lightsail Snowball Edge Snowmobile EC2 Systems Mgr Personal Health Dashboard Postgres for Aurora Elastic GPUs and more….
- 5. Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. It supports 24 languages and 47 lifelike voices. Create apps that talk, enabling you to build entirely new categories of speech- enabled products. G A
- 6. Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces using voice and text. With Lex, the same deep learning engine that powers Alexa is now available to any developer, enabling you to bring sophisticated, natural language chatbots to new and existing applications. Preview
- 7. Amazon Rekognition is a service that makes it easy to add image analysis to your applications. With Rekognition, you can detect objects, scenes, and faces in images. You can also search and compare faces. G A
- 8. Shield AWS Shield is a managed DDoS protection service that safeguards your web applications using Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon Route 53. G A
- 9. Amazon Pinpoint makes it easy to run targeted push notification campaigns to improve user engagement in mobile apps. You can use Pinpoint to define your target segments, run your campaign, and measure results. G A
- 10. Batch AWS Batch enables developers, scientists, and engineers to easily and efficiently run hundreds of thousands of batch computing jobs on AWS. Preview
- 11. Glue AWS Glue is a fully managed ETL service that makes it easy to understand your data sources, prepare the data, and move it reliably between data stores. It simplifies and automates data discovery, transformation, and job scheduling tasks. Pre-announcement
- 12. X-Ray X-Ray captures trace data from code running on EC2 instances (including ECS containers) Preview
- 13. AWS CodeBuild builds and tests code in the cloud. CodeBuild scales continuously, so your builds are not left waiting in a queue. You are charged by the minute for the compute resources you use. You can also use CodeBuild with other AWS services. For example, you can plug CodeBuild into AWS CodePipeline, which automates building and testing code in CodeBuild each time you commit a change to your source repository. CodeBuild is also integrated with AWS Elastic Beanstalk, enabling you to easily build and test code in CodeBuild for your Elastic Beanstalk applications. G A
- 14. OpsWorks for Chef Automate AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate provides a fully managed Chef server and suite of automation tools for continuous deployment, automated testing for compliance, and a user interface for visibility into your nodes. G A
- 15. Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage. You pay only for the queries you run. G A
- 16. AWS Step Functions makes it easy to coordinate the components of distributed applications and microservices using visual workflows. G A
- 17. Lambda@Edge Lambda@Edge lets you run code at CloudFront edge locations without provisioning or managing servers. This allows developers to deliver a low latency user experience for customized web applications. Preview
- 18. You can now use C# with AWS Lambda. You can now configure a dead letter queue (DLQ) on AWS Lambda to give you more control over message handling for all asynchronous invocations, including those delivered via AWS events (S3, SNS, IoT, etc). Environment Variables in KMS G A
- 19. Greengrass AWS Greengrass is software that lets you run local compute, messaging & data caching for connected devices. Run IoT applications seamlessly across the AWS cloud and local devices using AWS Lambda. Preview
- 20. Snowball Edge AWS Snowball Edge is a petabyte-scale data transfer service with on- board storage and compute. G A
- 21. AWS Snowmobile AWS Snowmobile is an exabyte-scale data transfer service used to move extremely large amounts of data. G A
- 22. Elastic GPU for EC2 AWS announces their first attachable Elastic GPUs — the most cost effective and flexible way to add graphics acceleration to Amazon EC2 Instances. Preview
- 23. Instance Improvements Amazon EC2 C5 instances are the most powerful Compute Optimized instances, featuring the highest performing processors and the lowest price/compute performance in EC2. I3 instances are the latest generation of Storage Optimized High I/O instances, featuring NVMe based SSDs for the most demanding I/O intensive relational, NoSQL, transactional, and analytics workloads. Amazon EC2 R4 instances are the latest generation of Memory Optimized instances which are 20% more price performant than R3 instances. t2.xlarge and t2.2xlarge are the newest Amazon EC2 burstable- performance instances, well-suited for workloads that require a consistent baseline performance with the ability to burst. Preview
- 24. EC2 Systems Manager Amazon EC2 Systems Manager, helps you automate important management tasks such as collecting system inventory, applying OS patches, automating image creation, and configuring OS and applications at scale. In addition, you can record and govern your instance’s software configuration with AWS Config. G A
- 25. Ability for API Gateway to generate documentation based on an API definition Developers use custom authorizers to authorize API requests to their backend using bearer token strategies such as OAuth. Launch of AWS API Marketplace with the integration between API Gateway and the AWS Marketplace G A
- 26. fully managed, secure application streaming service that allows you to stream desktop applications from AWS to any device, without rewriting them. AppStream 2.0 provides users with instant-on access to the applications they need, and a responsive, fluid user experience running in an HTML5 web browser. G A
- 27. IP v6 for VPC EC2 instances in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now offer native support for the IPv6 protocol. IPv6 can be enabled for existing and new VPCs through the AWS management console, API/SDK and CLI. G A
- 28. Amazon Lightsail is the easiest way to launch and manage a virtual private server with AWS. Get everything you need to jumpstart your project - compute, storage, and networking - starting at $5/month. G A
- 29. Aurora Improvements Amazon Aurora is now PostgreSQL compatible. You can get up to twice the performance of the typical PostgreSQL database and the features you love in Amazon Aurora. Aurora SQL Triggers via AWS Lambda G A
- 30. Organizations AWS Organizations is a new administrative capability, which allows customers to control multiple AWS accounts centrally, enabling them to organize and manage their accounts to meet their business’ budgetary, security, and compliance needs Preview
- 31. S3 & Storage Storage Gateway that provides customers an NFS mount point mapped to an S3 bucket. Files on the mount point are backed by objects in customers S3 bucket. Gateway manages data transfer to AWS, and provides local caching for low latency access to subset of data on premises. On-Prem DX Access to EFS This feature will allow customers to mount EFS file systems on servers running on prem. G A
- 32. Blox is a collection of open source software that enables customers to build custom schedulers and integrate third-party schedulers on top of ECS. G A
- 33. G A mxnet – deep learning framework http://mxnet.io/ https://github.com/dmlc/mxnet
- 34. AWS Artifact features a comprehensive list of access-controlled documents relevant to compliance and security in the AWS cloud. G A
- 35. Personalized Dashboards AWS Personal Health Dashboard gives you a personalized view of AWS service health. You’ll get alerts when services you are using are impacted, and guidance to help keep your AWS resources healthy. G A