AWS re:Invent 2019 - Announcements

The list of the most interesting announcements before and during AWS re:Invent in 2019

Date	News	Link
06/11/19	New – Savings Plans for AWS Compute Services	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-savings-plans-for-aws-compute-services/
07/11/19	AWS CLI v2 Preview Now Supports AWS Single Sign-On	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/aws-cli-v2-now-supports-aws-single-sign-on/
09/11/19	Cross-Account Cross-Region Dashboards with Amazon CloudWatch	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/cross-account-cross-region-dashboards-with-amazon-cloudwatch/
13/11/19	New – Import Existing Resources into a CloudFormation Stack	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-import-existing-resources-into-a-cloudformation-stack/
18/11/19	Amazon EKS adds support for provisioning and managing Kubernetes worker nodes	https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/amazon-eks-adds-support-for-provisioning-and-managing-kubernetes-worker-nodes/
18/11/19	CloudFormation Update – CLI + Third-Party Resource Support + Registry	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/cloudformation-update-cli-third-party-resource-support-registry/
19/11/19	New – Application Load Balancer Simplifies Deployment with Weighted Target Groups	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-application-load-balancer-simplifies-deployment-with-weighted-target-groups/
19/11/19	Add defense in depth against open firewalls, reverse proxies, and SSRF vulnerabilities with enhancements to the EC2 Instance Metadata Service	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/defense-in-depth-open-firewalls-reverse-proxies-ssrf-vulnerabilities-ec2-instance-metadata-service/
19/11/19	AWS Systems Manager Explorer – A Multi-Account, Multi-Region Operations Dashboard	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-systems-manager-explorer-a-multi-account-multi-region-operations-dashboard/
19/11/19	New – Using Step Functions to Orchestrate Amazon EMR Workloads	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-using-step-functions-to-orchestrate-amazon-emr-workloads/
19/11/19	Amazon Connect Introduces Web & Mobile Chat for a True Omnichannel Contact Center Experience	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-omnichannel-contact-center-web-and-mobile-chat-for-amazon-connect/
19/11/19	AWS Lambda Supports Amazon SQS FIFO (First-In-First-Out) as an Event Source	https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/aws-lambda-supports-amazon-sqs-fifo-event-source/
20/11/19	New – Amazon EBS Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR)	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ebs-fast-snapshot-restore-fsr/
20/11/19	S3 Replication Update: Replication SLA, Metrics, and Events	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/s3-replication-update-replication-sla-metrics-and-events/
20/11/19	Welcome to AWS Storage Day	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/welcome-to-aws-storage-day/
20/11/19	Use IAM to share your AWS resources with groups of AWS accounts in AWS Organizations	https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/use-iam-share-aws-resources-with-groups-aws-accounts-aws-organizations/
21/11/19	EventBridge Support in Amazon Elastic Container Registry	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/eventbridge-support-in-amazon-elastic-container-registry/
21/11/19	New – Convert Your Single-Region Amazon DynamoDB Tables to Global Tables	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-convert-your-single-region-amazon-dynamodb-tables-to-global-tables/
21/11/19	Announcing CloudTrail Insights: Identify and Respond to Unusual API Activity	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-cloudtrail-insights-identify-and-respond-to-unusual-api-activity/
21/11/19	Announcing Amazon CloudWatch ServiceLens	https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/announcing-amazon-cloudwatch-servicelens/
22/11/19	New for Identity Federation – Use Employee Attributes for Access Control in AWS	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-identity-federation-use-employee-attributes-for-access-control-in-aws/
22/11/19	Using Spatial Data with Amazon Redshift	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/using-spatial-data-with-amazon-redshift/
25/11/19	Visualize and Monitor Highly Distributed Applications with Amazon CloudWatch ServiceLens	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/visualize-and-monitor-highly-distributed-applications-with-amazon-cloudwatch-servicelens/
25/11/19	Announcing AWS Managed Rules for AWS WAF	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-aws-managed-rules-for-aws-waf/
25/11/19	Introducing Alexa Voice Service Integration for AWS IoT Core, a new way to cost-effectively bring Alexa Voice to any type of connected device	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/iot/introducing-alexa-voice-service-integration-for-aws-iot-core/
25/11/19	AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) – Java and .NET are Now Generally Available	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-cloud-development-kit-cdk-java-and-net-are-now-generally-available/
25/11/19	Welcome to AWS IoT Day – Eight Powerful New Features	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/welcome-to-aws-iot-day/
25/11/19	New – AWS IoT Greengrass Adds Container Support and Management of Data Streams at the Edge	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-iot-greengrass-adds-docker-support-and-streams-management-at-the-edge/
25/11/19	AWS Lambda Now Supports Maximum Event Age and Maximum Retry Attempts for Asynchronous Invocations	https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/aws-lambda-supports-max-retry-attempts-event-age-asynchronous-invocations/
26/11/19	AWS Load Balancer Update – Lots of New Features for You!	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-load-balancer-update-lots-of-new-features-for-you/
26/11/19	New – Use Tag Policies to Manage Tags Across Multiple AWS Accounts	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-use-tag-policies-to-manage-tags-across-multiple-aws-accounts/
26/11/19	New for Amazon Aurora – Use Machine Learning Directly From Your Databases	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-amazon-aurora-use-machine-learning-directly-from-your-databases/
26/11/19	AWS Lambda Supports Destinations for Asynchronous Invocations	https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/aws-lambda-supports-destinations-for-asynchronous-invocations/
27/11/19	AWS DeepRacer Update – New Features & New Racing Opportunities	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-deepracer-update-new-features-new-racing-opportunities/
27/11/19	The Next Evolution in AWS Single Sign-On	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/the-next-evolution-in-aws-single-sign-on/

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re:Invent News

Date	News	Link
01/12/19	Introducing Amazon EventBridge schema registry and discovery – In preview	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/introducing-amazon-eventbridge-schema-registry-and-discovery-in-preview/
02/12/19	AWS DeepComposer – Compose Music with Generative Machine Learning Models	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-deepcomposer-compose-music-with-generative-machine-learning-models/
02/12/19	Amazon Transcribe Medical – Real-Time Automatic Speech Recognition for Healthcare Customers	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-transcribe-medical-real-time-automatic-speech-recognition-for-healthcare-customers/
02/12/19	Automate OS Image Build Pipelines with EC2 Image Builder
02/12/19	A New, Simplified, Bring-Your-Own-License Experience for Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/a-new-simplified-bring-your-own-license-experience-for-microsoft-windows-server/
02/12/19	New AWS Program to Help Future-proof Your End-of-Support Windows Server Applications	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-program-to-future-proof-windows-server-applications/
02/12/19	Amazon Transcribe Medical – Real-Time Automatic Speech Recognition for Healthcare Customers	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-transcribe-medical-real-time-automatic-speech-recognition-for-healthcare-customers/
02/12/19	Introducing Amazon SageMaker Operators for Kubernetes	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/introducing-amazon-sagemaker-operators-for-kubernetes/
02/12/19	Identify Unintended Resource Access with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/identify-unintended-resource-access-with-aws-identity-and-access-management-iam-access-analyzer/
02/12/19	Amazon Braket – Get Started with Quantum Computing	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-braket-get-started-with-quantum-computing/
03/12/19	AWS Outposts Now Available – Order Your Racks Today	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-outposts-now-available-order-your-racks-today/
03/12/19	Inf1 Instances with AWS Inferentia Chips for High Performance Cost-Effective Inferencing	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ec2-update-inf1-instances-with-aws-inferentia-chips-for-high-performance-cost-effective-inferencing/
03/12/19	EBS Direct APIs – Programmatic Access to EBS Snapshot Content	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-programmatic-access-to-ebs-snapshot-content/
03/12/19	AWS Compute Optimizer – Your Customized Resource Optimization Service	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-compute-optimizer-your-customized-resource-optimization-service/
03/12/19	Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate Now Generally Available	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-eks-on-aws-fargate-now-generally-available/
03/12/19	AWS Fargate Spot Now Generally Available	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-fargate-spot-now-generally-available/
03/12/19	ECS Cluster Auto Scaling is Now Generally Available	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-ecs-cluster-auto-scaling-is-now-generally-available/
03/12/19	Easily Manage Shared Data Sets with Amazon S3 Access Points	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/easily-manage-shared-data-sets-with-amazon-s3-access-points/
03/12/19	Amazon Redshift Update – Next-Generation Compute Instances and Managed, Analytics-Optimized Storage	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-redshift-update-next-generation-compute-instances-and-managed-analytics-optimized-storage/
03/12/19	Amazon Redshift – Data Lake Export and Federated Queries	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-amazon-redshift-data-lake-export-and-federated-queries/
03/12/19	Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/announcing-amazon-rekognition-custom-labels/
03/12/19	Amazon SageMaker Studio: The First Fully Integrated Development Environment For Machine Learning	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-sagemaker-studio-the-first-fully-integrated-development-environment-for-machine-learning/
03/12/19	Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor – Fully Managed Automatic Monitoring For Your Machine Learning Models	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-sagemaker-model-monitor-fully-managed-automatic-monitoring-for-your-machine-learning-models/
03/12/19	Amazon SageMaker Experiments – Organize, Track And Compare Your Machine Learning Trainings	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-sagemaker-experiments-organize-track-and-compare-your-machine-learning-trainings/
03/12/19	Amazon SageMaker Debugger – Debug Your Machine Learning Models	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-sagemaker-debugger-debug-your-machine-learning-models/
03/12/19	Amazon SageMaker Autopilot – Automatically Create High-Quality Machine Learning Models	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-sagemaker-autopilot-fully-managed-automatic-machine-learning/
03/12/19	Now Available on Amazon SageMaker: The Deep Graph Library	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-on-amazon-sagemaker-the-deep-graph-library/
03/12/19	Amazon SageMaker Processing – Fully Managed Data Processing and Model Evaluation	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-sagemaker-processing-fully-managed-data-processing-and-model-evaluation/
03/12/19	Deep Java Library (DJL)	https://towardsdatascience.com/introducing-deep-java-library-djl-9de98de8c6ca
03/12/19	AWS Now Available from a Local Zone in Los Angeles	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-now-available-from-a-local-zone-in-los-angeles/
03/12/19	Lambda Provisioned Concurrency	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-provisioned-concurrency-for-lambda-functions
03/12/19	AWS Step Functions Express Workflows: High Performance & Low Cost	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-step-functions-express-workflows-high-performance-low-cost/
03/12/19	AWS Transit Gateway – Build Global Networks and Centralize Monitoring Using Network Manager	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-transit-gateway-build-global-networks-and-centralize-monitoring-using-network-manager/
03/12/19	AWS Transit Gateway Adds Multicast and Inter-regional Peering	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-transit-gateway-adds-multicast-and-inter-regional-peering/
03/12/19	VPC Ingress Routing – Simplifying Integration of Third-Party Appliances	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-vpc-ingress-routing-simplifying-integration-of-third-party-appliances/
03/12/19	Amazon Chime Meeting Regions	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/business-productivity/amazon-chime-meetings-14-aws-regions/
03/12/19	AWS Wavelength - Preview	https://aws.amazon.com/wavelength/
03/12/19	New – Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service (MCS) - Preview	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-managed-apache-cassandra-service-mcs/
03/12/19	Coming Soon – Graviton2-Powered General Purpose, Compute-Optimized, & Memory-Optimized EC2 Instances	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/coming-soon-graviton2-powered-general-purpose-compute-optimized-memory-optimized-ec2-instances/
03/12/19	Amazon Fraud Detector - Preview	http://aws.amazon.com/fraud-detector
03/12/19	Amazon Kendra - Preview	https://aws.amazon.com/kendra
03/12/19	Contact Lens for Amazon Connect Preview	https://pages.awscloud.com/contact-lens-preview.html
03/12/19	Amazon CodeGuru - Preview	https://aws.amazon.com/codeguru/
03/12/19	Amazon RDS Proxy	http://aws.amazon.com/rds/proxy
04/12/19	Amplify DataStore – Simplify Development of Offline Apps with GraphQL	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amplify-datastore-simplify-development-of-offline-apps-with-graphql/
04/12/19	Announcing HTTP APIs for Amazon API Gateway - (Preview)	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/announcing-http-apis-for-amazon-api-gateway/
04/12/19	Introducing Amplify for iOS and Android	https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/introducing-amplify-for-ios-and-android/
04/12/19	Announcing the Amazon Chime Meetings App for Slack	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/business-productivity/announcing-amazon-chime-meetings-app-for-slack/
05/12/19	Check out The Amazon Builders’ Library – This is How We Do It!	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/check-out-the-amazon-builders-library-this-is-how-we-do-it/

Author: Luke Dorosz & Przemek Malak