Links for all the AWS re:Invent 2021 announcements

This is a long blog post, and the idea here is just to compile all the launches from AWS in reInvent 2021, with different resources - blog post and reinvent talks. I might add more links as more material start appearing on these topics.

Compute

What's new in EC2?

https://youtu.be/LHHG5rcPXvw

AWS Graviton3 and Amazon EC2 C7g instances

Preview
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/join-the-preview-amazon-ec2-c7g-instances-powered-by-new-aws-graviton3-processors/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Deep dive into AWS Graviton3 and Amazon EC2 C7g instances https://youtu.be/WDKwwFQKfSI

Amazon EC2 G5g instances - powered by AWS Graviton2

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-ec2-g5g-instances-aws-graviton2-processors/

Amazon EC2 Im4gn and Is4gen instances - powered by AWS Graviton2

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-ec2-im4gn-is4gen-aws-graviton2/

Local Zone Expansion

Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/localzones/locations/?nc=sn&loc=3

Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances

Preview
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/amazon-ec2-m1-mac-instances-macos/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - Build native Apple silicon apps with EC2 M1 Mac instances, ft. Goldman Sachs https://youtu.be/i9b7UtenFlA

AWS Compute Optimizer

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-compute-optimizer-enhanced-infrastructure-metrics-ec2-instances/
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-compute-optimizer-resource-efficiency-metrics-to-estimate-savings-opportunities-and-performance-risks/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - Optimizing resource efficiency with AWS Compute Optimizer: https://youtu.be/yt2rPJHrEeQ

Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Insights

Preview
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-cloudwatch-metrics-insights-preview/

Amazon Braket Hybrid Jobs

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Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-braket-hybrid-jobs-set-up-monitor-and-efficiently-run-hybrid-quantum-classical-workloads/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - The path to a fault-tolerant quantum computer: https://youtu.be/wXQ8abYnf0U

Outposts Servers

Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-outposts-servers-in-two-form-factors/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - AWS Outposts: Bringing the AWS experience on premises https://youtu.be/FxVF6A22498

Outposts Region Expansion

Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-outposts-new-regions

Workspaces Web

Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-workspaces-introduces-amazon-workspaces-web/

Networking

Cloud WAN

Preview
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/introducing-aws-cloud-wan-preview/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Introducing AWS Cloud WAN and AWS Direct Connect SiteLink: https://youtu.be/pBqGe9cj33g

Direct Connect SiteLink

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Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/introducing-aws-direct-connect-sitelink/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Introducing AWS Cloud WAN and AWS Direct Connect SiteLink: https://youtu.be/pBqGe9cj33g

Transit Gateway Intra-Region Peering

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/aws-transit-gateway-now-supports-intra-region-peering/

IP Address Management

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/network-address-management-and-auditing-at-scale-with-amazon-vpc-ip-address-manager/

VPC Network Access Analyzer

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-vpc-network-access-analyzer/

Private 5G

Preview
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/preview-aws-private-5g/
Service page: https://aws.amazon.com/private5g/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - Introducing AWS Private 5G Preview: Set up a private mobile network in days: https://youtu.be/kP3oEhWRh5E

Data Out Transfer Price Reduction

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-price-reduction-data-transfers-internet/

Partner-Managed Firewall Offering

Preview
Check Point: https://blog.checkpoint.com/2021/11/29/check-point-cloudguard-network-security-streamlines-operational-efficiency-with-as-a-service-solution-on-aws/
TrendMicro: https://www.trendmicro.com/en_ca/research/21/k/trend-micro-cloud-one-network-security-as-a-service.html
Cisco: https://blogs.cisco.com/security/simplify-network-security-with-cisco-secure-firewall-as-a-service-fwaas-on-aws

Connect

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/machine-learning-powered-amazon-connect-now-with-call-summarization/https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-connect-unified-agent-application/
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-connect-unified-agent-application/

Storage

S3 Intelligent-Tiering: Archive Instant Access tier

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Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-glacier-is-the-best-place-to-archive-your-data-introducing-the-s3-glacier-instant-retrieval-storage-class/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Introducing the Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval storage class: https://youtu.be/uj2yVHukW-4

Amazon S3 Price Reduction

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-glacier-is-the-best-place-to-archive-your-data-introducing-the-s3-glacier-instant-retrieval-storage-class/

EBS Snapshot Archive

GA
AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Protect data and lower costs with EBS Snapshots: https://youtu.be/bJlbNOzAaaI

Recycle Bin for EBS Snapshots

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/recover-accidental-deletions-snapshots-recycle-bin/

AWS Snowball with Tape Gateway

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-snow-family-offline-tape-data-migration-capability/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - Accelerate physical tape data migration to AWS: https://youtu.be/k5GgJCwpz-Q

Next generation Amazon FSx for Lustre file system

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-fsx-lustre-file-updates-s3/
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-fsx-lustre-s3-buckets/
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-fsx-lustre-file-system-contents-s3/

Amazon FSx for OpenZFS

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Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-fsx-openzfs/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Introducing Amazon FSx for OpenZFS: https://youtu.be/hPJSIZD099o

AWS Backup support for Amazon S3 and VMware workloads

Preview
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-backup-vmware-workloads/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Introducing AWS Backup for VMware workloads: https://youtu.be/VXxXdS3H8R8

Security

Introducing the new Amazon Inspector

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Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-inspector-continual-vulnerability-management/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} The new Amazon Inspector for vulnerability management: https://youtu.be/0nyy7fP4vCI

https://youtu.be/G80ONRnTT3g

AWS Control Tower Data Residency Controls

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-control-tower-controls-data-residency-requirements/

AWS Shield Advanced introduces automatic application-layer DDoS mitigation

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/aws-shield-advanced-application-layer-ddos-mitigation/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} AWS Shield: Automated layer 7 DDoS mitigation: https://youtu.be/T3kqljTLR50

Architecture

New Sustainability Pillar for the AWS Well-Architected Framework

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/new-sustainability-pillar-aws-well-architected-framework/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - Architecting for sustainability: https://youtu.be/3-Zq2W1-odU

Migration

AWS Mainframe Modernization

Preview
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/introducing-aws-mainframe-modernization/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Introducing AWS Mainframe Modernization service: https://youtu.be/07u4ANDTZt8

AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces

Preview
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-migration-hub-refactor-spaces/

DevOps

Terraform Support for AWS Control Tower

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-control-tower-controls-data-residency-requirements/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - Account provisioning & customization using Terraform with AWS Control Tower: https://youtu.be/8Ot5wn7kxI0

Manage AWS Resources from Slack

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-chatbot-management-resources-slack/

Karpenter

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-karpenter-v0-5/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - Getting to large Amazon EKS clusters: https://youtu.be/2LEFG3MlaqQ

AWS Marketplace for Containers Anywhere

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-customers-find-subscribe-deploy-kubernetes-aws-marketplace/

Developers

Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-codeguru-reviewer-hardcoded-secrets-java-python/

Amplify Studio

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mobile/aws-amplify-studio-figma-to-fullstack-react-app-with-minimal-programming/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} AWS Amplify: Visually build full-stack web apps faster on AWS: https://youtu.be/NLN-q47uPo0
Example Figma Project: https://www.figma.com/community/file/1047600760128127424
Amplify Documentation: https://docs.amplify.aws/console/tutorial/buildui/
Video Tutorial: https://docs.amplify.aws/console/tutorial/buildui/

https://youtu.be/lYGj06vSyHE

AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) v2

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-general-availability-of-construct-hub-and-aws-cloud-development-kit-version-2/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - What's new with AWS CloudFormation and AWS CDK: https://youtu.be/PVW8TRvmHhU

AWS CDK Contruct Hub

GA
https://constructs.dev

CloudWatch Real User Monitoring (RUM)

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/cloudwatch-rum/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - Optimize applications through end user insights with Amazon CloudWatch RUM: https://youtu.be/NMaeujY9A9Y

https://youtu.be/HnpawWVTUMU

Amazon CloudWatch Evidently

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/cloudwatch-evidently/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - Remove guesswork when launching new features with CloudWatch Evidently: https://youtu.be/oeFziVW-I3o

AWS Microservice Extractor for .NET

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-microservice-extractor-net/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - What’s new with .NET development and deployment on AWS: https://youtu.be/UvTJ_Inb634

AWS SDKs

Preview
Blog post Rust: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/aws-sdk-rust-developer-preview/
Blog post Kotlin: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/aws-sdk-kotlin-developer-preview/
Blog post Swift: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/aws-sdk-swift-developer-preview/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - Building with the new AWS SDKs for Rust, Kotlin, and Swift: https://youtu.be/Nhk1K1AjYvg

re:Post

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-repost-a-reimagined-qa-experience-for-the-aws-community/
https://repost.aws/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Remove technical roadblocks with AWS re:Post: https://youtu.be/lMLuyCG0uwU

AWS BugBust

https://bugbust.aws/
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/help-make-bugbusting-history-at-aws-reinvent-2021/

Serverless

https://youtu.be/_8mbJ3PGVUk

AWS Lambda: Event Filtering

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-lambda-event-filtering-amazon-sqs-dynamodb-kinesis-sources/

https://youtu.be/oY7vr0GMwjQ

AWS Lambda: Partial Batch Response for SQS

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-lambda-partial-batch-response-sqs-event-source/

Amazon EventBridge: S3 Data Plane Notifications

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-use-amazon-s3-event-notifications-with-amazon-eventbridge/

AWS Lambda OffsetLag

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-lambda-metric-offsetlag-amazon-msk-kafka-mq/

Amazon EventBridge cross-Region support

AWS Step Functions: Integration with Athena Console

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/visualizing-aws-step-functions-workflows-from-the-amazon-athena-console/

Analytics

AI for Data Analytics (AIDA) Partner Solutions

Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/ai-for-data-analytics-aida-partner-solutions-will-empower-business-experts-with-predictive-analytics/

Data Exchange for APIs

Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/data-exchange-for-apis-find-subscribe-use-third-party-apis-consistent-authentication/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - Use AWS Data Exchange to streamline data processing and analytics: https://youtu.be/IpxnQw_W1QM

AWS Lake Formation Governed Tables

Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-lake-formation-governed-tables-storage-security/

Amazon Athena ACID transactions

Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-athena-acid-apache-iceberg/

https://youtu.be/k9kHVj1dxaA

Amazon EMR Serverless

Preview
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/announcing-amazon-emr-serverless-preview-run-big-data-applications-without-managing-servers/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Introducing Amazon EMR Serverless: https://youtu.be/qk3TDZ4OkNE

Amazon MSK Serverless

Preview
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-msk-serverless-public-preview/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Introducing Amazon MSK Serverless: https://youtu.be/k-tytAqaomc

https://youtu.be/q5INAdRHAA8

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams on demand

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-kinesis-data-streams-on-demand-stream-data-at-scale-without-managing-capacity/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - Introducing Amazon Kinesis Data Streams On-Demand Mode: https://youtu.be/mQhPMJHmz_E

https://youtu.be/BngfpxwZkxg

Database

Amazon RDS Custom

Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/amazon-rds-custom-sql-server/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Customize Oracle and SQL Server databases with Amazon RDS Custom: https://youtu.be/zpPMYGIaocM

Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS

Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-devops-guru-for-rds-to-detect-diagnose-and-resolve-amazon-aurora-related-issues-using-ml/
AWS re:Invent 2021 -{New Launch} Automatically detect and resolve issues with Amazon DevOps Guru: https://youtu.be/iwQNQHwoXfk

Amazon DynamoDB Standard-Infrequent Access (Standard-IA) table class

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-dynamodb-table-class-save-up-to-60-in-your-dynamodb-costs/

https://youtu.be/KdAMSVyOsJ4

Amazon Timestream

GA
AWS re:Invent 2021 - Deep dive on Amazon Timestream: https://youtu.be/QjMZaKkq8YM

Amazon Redshift Serverless

Preview
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-redshift-serverless-run-analytics-at-any-scale-without-having-to-manage-infrastructure/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Introducing Amazon Redshift Serverless: https://youtu.be/x0xmqJrAVM8

https://youtu.be/p3LByoe9zEs

AWS DMS Fleet Advisor

Preview
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/aws-dms-fleet-advisor/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - Announcing AWS DMS Fleet Advisor in the new AWS DMS studio console experience: https://youtu.be/mMEONHthZs8

ML/AI

Amazon EC2 Trn1 Instances for ML Training

Preview
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-ec2-trn1-instances/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Introducing AWS Trainium-based Amazon EC2 Trn1 instances: https://youtu.be/_6y-AWmTako

Amazon SageMaker Notebooks

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-create-and-manage-emr-clusters-and-spark-jobs-with-amazon-sagemaker-studio/

Amazon SageMaker Training Compiler

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Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-introducing-sagemaker-training-compiler/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Introducing Amazon SageMaker Training Compiler: https://youtu.be/IQLMSk4qia4

Amazon SageMaker Inference Recommender

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-amazon-sagemaker-inference-recommender/

Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference

Preview
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/amazon-sagemaker-serverless-inference

Amazon SageMaker MLOps

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/amazon-sagemaker-pipelines-integrates-sagemaker-model-monitor-sagemaker-clarify/
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/amazon-sagemaker-cross-account-lineage-tracking-query/
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/sagemaker-model-registry-endpoint-visibility-custom-metadata-model-metrics/

Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-amazon-sagemaker-ground-truth-plus/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Introducing Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus: https://youtu.be/Y3Lo63yiqsU

Amazon SageMaker Canvas

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Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-amazon-sagemaker-canvas-a-visual-no-code-machine-learning-capability-for-business-analysts
AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Introducing Amazon SageMaker Canvas: https://youtu.be/8gm1TD9TXp0

Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab

Preview
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-in-preview-amazon-sagemaker-studio-lab-a-free-service-to-learn-and-experiment-with-ml/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Introducing Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab: https://youtu.be/4Vri7vVh-tg

AI/ML Services

Amazon Textract for Identity documents

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Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/amazon-textract-automated-processing-identity-documents/

Amazon Personalize

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/improve-the-return-on-your-marketing-investments-with-intelligent-user-segmentation-in-amazon-personalize/

Amazon Kendra

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/enrich-your-content-and-metadata-to-enhance-your-search-experience-with-custom-document-enrichment-in-amazon-kendra/

*Amazon Lex

Preview
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/expedite-conversation-design-with-the-automated-chatbot-designer-in-amazon-lex/

https://youtu.be/6Zo_vrbEz78

IoT

AWS IoT ExpressLink

Preview
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-iot-expresslink-development/

AWS IoT TwinMaker

Preview
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-iot-twinmaker-build-digital-twins/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Introducing AWS IoT TwinMaker: https://youtu.be/fdBKRyhC9Yk

https://youtu.be/RSgDKdBngwk

AWS IoT FleetWise

Preview
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-iot-fleetwise-transferring-vehicle-data-cloud/

AWS IoT RoboRunner

Preview
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/preview-aws-iot-roborunner-for-building-robot-fleet-management-applications/
AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Improve efficiency of robotics automation with AWS IoT RoboRunner: https://youtu.be/r6zNGSm6gWM

https://youtu.be/kOhMlNNYoJ0

AWS IoT SiteWise cold tier storage support

Preview
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-iot-sitewise-storage-tiers-industrial-data/

FreeRTOS out-of-the-box connectivity

GA
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/freertos-aws-iot-connectivity-experience/
Blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-freertos-extended-maintenance-plan-for-up-to-10-years/

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