Key announcements AWS re:Invent 2022

Are you curious about the news announced at AWS re:Invent 2022? Check out the summary of the most intriguing things this year's AWS re:Invent has brought.

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New AWS Glue 4.0 - New and Updated Engines, More Data Formats, and More

This version of Glue includes the Python 3.10 language and Apache Spark 3.3.0, native support for the Cloud Shuffle service plugin for the Spark platform, support for Pandas, and more.

Announcing AWS Glue for Ray (Preview)

Data engineers can use AWS Glue for Ray to process large data sets using Python and popular Python libraries.

New for Amazon Transcribe - Real-Time Analytics During Live Calls

Real-time call analytics provides developers with APIs to accurately transcribe live calls while identifying issues and customer sentiment in real-time.

Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning

Classifying and Extracting Mortgage Loan Data with Amazon Textract

The new API was developed in response to requests from major lenders in the industry to help them process applications faster and reduce errors, improving the end-customer experience while reducing operational costs.

Amazon CodeWhisperer Adds Enterprise Administrative Controls, Simple Sign-up, and Support for New Languages (Preview)

Administrators can now easily integrate CodeWhisperer with existing employee identification solutions, provide user and group access, and configure settings across the organization.

Business applications

AWS Wickr - A Secure, End-to-End Encrypted Communication Service For Enterprises With Auditing And Regulatory Requirements

Unlike many enterprise communication tools, Wickr uses end-to-end encryption mechanisms to ensure that messages, files, voice, or video calls can only be accessed by their intended recipients.

Data processing

New - Amazon ECS Service Connect Enables Easy Communication Between Microservices

This new feature simplifies building and operating resilient distributed applications. You can add a layer of resilience to ECS service communications and gain traffic insights without changing your application code.

Announcing the availability of Microsoft Office Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) on Amazon EC2 with AWS-provided licences

With this offering, customers can run Microsoft Office-dependent applications on EC2.

Containers

New - AWS Marketplace for Containers Now Supports Direct Deployment to Amazon EKS Clusters

This new launch makes searching for third-party Kubernetes operating software from the Amazon EKS console easier. It allows it to be deployed to EKS clusters using the same commands used to deploy EKS add-ons.

Databases

New - Amazon RDS Optimised Reads and Optimised Writes

These two new features will speed up your Amazon RDS for MySQL workloads.

New - Fully Managed Blue/Green Deployments in Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS

This new feature for Amazon Aurora, which is compatible with MySQL, Amazon RDS for MySQL, and Amazon RDS for MariaDB, enables safer, simpler, and faster database updates.

Tools to streamline management

New - AWS Config Rules Now Support Proactive Compliance

This release extends AWS Config rules to support proactive mode, so you can run them anytime before provisioning and save time implementing custom validations before deployment.

New for AWS Control Tower - Comprehensive Controls Management (Preview)

You can use the new feature to apply managed preventive, detective, and proactive controls to accounts and business units by service, control objective, or compliance structure.

Protect Sensitive Data with Amazon CloudWatch Logs

This new set of capabilities for the Amazon CloudWatch Logs service uses pattern matching and machine learning (ML) to detect and protect sensitive log data during transfer.

New - Amazon CloudWatch Cross-Account Observability

This new feature allows you to search, analyze, and correlate cross-account telemetry data stored in CloudWatch, such as metrics, logs, and traces.

Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor Provides End-to-End Visibility into Internet Performance for Your Applications (Preview)

This new feature provides insight into how an internet problem can affect application performance and availability. It reduces the time to diagnose Internet problems from days to minutes.

Migration and transfer services

New - A Fully Managed Schema Conversion in AWS Database Migration Service

AWS DMS Schema Conversion streamlines database migrations by providing schema evaluation and conversion in AWS DMS. You can now schedule, evaluate, convert and migrate in one central DMS service.

AWS Application Migration Service Major Updates - New Migration Servers Grouping, Updated Launch, and Post-Launch Template

These three significant updates will support your migration projects regardless of size.

Security, Identity, and Compliance

Automated Data Discovery for Amazon Macie

This new feature provides insight into where sensitive data resides in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) at a fraction of the cost of performing a full data audit across all S3 segments.

AWS announces Amazon Verified Permissions (Preview)

This central, detailed permissions management system simplifies changing and updating permissions rules in one place without changing code.

Storage

New - Failover Controls for Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points

These controls allow you to move S3 data access request traffic routed through an Amazon S3 multi-region access point to an alternative AWS region in minutes to test and build high-availability applications for business continuity.

New - Announcing Amazon EFS Elastic Throughput

This new throughput mode is designed to give applications as much bandwidth as they need, with pay-per-use pricing.

New for AWS Backup - Protect and Restore Your CloudFormation Stacks

You now have an automated solution for creating and restoring applications in a simplified way, eliminating the need to manage custom scripts.

New - Amazon Redshift Support in AWS Backup

AWS Backup allows you to define a central backup policy to manage the protection of your application data and now also allows you to protect Amazon Redshift clusters.

Announcing Automated in-AWS Failback for AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

New automated support provides simplified and accelerated disaster recovery of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances to the original region, and both failover and disaster recovery processes (for local or AWS recovery) can be conveniently launched from the AWS Management Console.