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?
AWS Graviton3 and Amazon EC2 C7g instances
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- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/join-the-preview-a..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Deep dive into AWS Graviton3 and Amazon EC2 C7g instances youtu.be/WDKwwFQKfSI
Amazon EC2 G5g instances - powered by AWS Graviton2
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/..
Amazon EC2 Im4gn and Is4gen instances - powered by AWS Graviton2
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/..
Local Zone Expansion
Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances
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- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - Build native Apple silicon apps with EC2 M1 Mac instances, ft. Goldman Sachs youtu.be/i9b7UtenFlA
AWS Compute Optimizer
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/..
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-comput..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - Optimizing resource efficiency with AWS Compute Optimizer: youtu.be/yt2rPJHrEeQ
Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Insights
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- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/..
Amazon Braket Hybrid Jobs
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - The path to a fault-tolerant quantum computer: youtu.be/wXQ8abYnf0U
Outposts Servers
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-outposts-s..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - AWS Outposts: Bringing the AWS experience on premises youtu.be/FxVF6A22498
Outposts Region Expansion
Workspaces Web
Networking
Cloud WAN
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- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Introducing AWS Cloud WAN and AWS Direct Connect SiteLink: youtu.be/pBqGe9cj33g
Direct Connect SiteLink
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Introducing AWS Cloud WAN and AWS Direct Connect SiteLink: youtu.be/pBqGe9cj33g
Transit Gateway Intra-Region Peering
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content..
IP Address Management
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/network-address-ma..
VPC Network Access Analyzer
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-vpc-net..
Private 5G
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- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/..
- Service page: aws.amazon.com/private5g
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - Introducing AWS Private 5G Preview: Set up a private mobile network in days: youtu.be/kP3oEhWRh5E
Data Out Transfer Price Reduction
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/..
Partner-Managed Firewall Offering
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- Check Point: blog.checkpoint.com/2021/11/29/check-point-..
- TrendMicro: trendmicro.com/en_ca/research/21/k/trend-mi..
- Cisco: blogs.cisco.com/security/simplify-network-s..
Connect
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/machine-learning-p..
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/..
Storage
S3 Intelligent-Tiering: Archive Instant Access tier
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-glacier-..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Introducing the Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval storage class: youtu.be/uj2yVHukW-4
Amazon S3 Price Reduction
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-glacier-..
EBS Snapshot Archive
- GA
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Protect data and lower costs with EBS Snapshots: youtu.be/bJlbNOzAaaI
Recycle Bin for EBS Snapshots
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/..
AWS Snowball with Tape Gateway
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - Accelerate physical tape data migration to AWS: youtu.be/k5GgJCwpz-Q
Next generation Amazon FSx for Lustre file system
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/..
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/..
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/..
Amazon FSx for OpenZFS
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Introducing Amazon FSx for OpenZFS: youtu.be/hPJSIZD099o
AWS Backup support for Amazon S3 and VMware workloads
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- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Introducing AWS Backup for VMware workloads: youtu.be/VXxXdS3H8R8
Security
Introducing the new Amazon Inspector
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} The new Amazon Inspector for vulnerability management: youtu.be/0nyy7fP4vCI
AWS Control Tower Data Residency Controls
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/..
AWS Shield Advanced introduces automatic application-layer DDoS mitigation
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} AWS Shield: Automated layer 7 DDoS mitigation: youtu.be/T3kqljTLR50
Architecture
New Sustainability Pillar for the AWS Well-Architected Framework
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - Architecting for sustainability: youtu.be/3-Zq2W1-odU
Migration
AWS Mainframe Modernization
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- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Introducing AWS Mainframe Modernization service: youtu.be/07u4ANDTZt8
AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces
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- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/..
DevOps
Terraform Support for AWS Control Tower
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - Account provisioning & customization using Terraform with AWS Control Tower: youtu.be/8Ot5wn7kxI0
Manage AWS Resources from Slack
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/..
Karpenter
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - Getting to large Amazon EKS clusters: youtu.be/2LEFG3MlaqQ
AWS Marketplace for Containers Anywhere
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/..
Developers
Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/..
Amplify Studio
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/mobile/aws-amplify-stu..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} AWS Amplify: Visually build full-stack web apps faster on AWS: youtu.be/NLN-q47uPo0
- Example Figma Project: figma.com/community/file/1047600760128127424
- Amplify Documentation: docs.amplify.aws/console/tutorial/buildui
- Video Tutorial: docs.amplify.aws/console/tutorial/buildui
AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) v2
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-general..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - What's new with AWS CloudFormation and AWS CDK: youtu.be/PVW8TRvmHhU
AWS CDK Contruct Hub
CloudWatch Real User Monitoring (RUM)
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/cloudwatch-rum
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - Optimize applications through end user insights with Amazon CloudWatch RUM: youtu.be/NMaeujY9A9Y
Amazon CloudWatch Evidently
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/cloudwatch-evidently
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - Remove guesswork when launching new features with CloudWatch Evidently: youtu.be/oeFziVW-I3o
AWS Microservice Extractor for .NET
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - What’s new with .NET development and deployment on AWS: youtu.be/UvTJ_Inb634
AWS SDKs
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- Blog post Rust: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/..
- Blog post Kotlin: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/..
- Blog post Swift: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - Building with the new AWS SDKs for Rust, Kotlin, and Swift: youtu.be/Nhk1K1AjYvg
re:Post
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-repost-a-reima..
- repost.aws
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Remove technical roadblocks with AWS re:Post: youtu.be/lMLuyCG0uwU
AWS BugBust
Serverless
AWS Lambda: Event Filtering
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/..
AWS Lambda: Partial Batch Response for SQS
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/..
Amazon EventBridge: S3 Data Plane Notifications
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-use-amazon-s3-..
AWS Lambda OffsetLag
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/..
Amazon EventBridge cross-Region support
- GA
AWS Step Functions: Integration with Athena Console
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/visualizing-aw..
Analytics
AI for Data Analytics (AIDA) Partner Solutions
Data Exchange for APIs
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/data-exchange-for-..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - Use AWS Data Exchange to streamline data processing and analytics: youtu.be/IpxnQw_W1QM
AWS Lake Formation Governed Tables
Amazon Athena ACID transactions
Amazon EMR Serverless
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- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/announcing-am..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Introducing Amazon EMR Serverless: youtu.be/qk3TDZ4OkNE
Amazon MSK Serverless
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- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Introducing Amazon MSK Serverless: youtu.be/k-tytAqaomc
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams on demand
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-kinesis-dat..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - Introducing Amazon Kinesis Data Streams On-Demand Mode: youtu.be/mQhPMJHmz_E
Database
Amazon RDS Custom
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Customize Oracle and SQL Server databases with Amazon RDS Custom: youtu.be/zpPMYGIaocM
Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-devops-..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 -{New Launch} Automatically detect and resolve issues with Amazon DevOps Guru: youtu.be/iwQNQHwoXfk
Amazon DynamoDB Standard-Infrequent Access (Standard-IA) table class
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-dynamodb-table..
Amazon Timestream
- GA
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - Deep dive on Amazon Timestream: youtu.be/QjMZaKkq8YM
Amazon Redshift Serverless
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- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Introducing Amazon Redshift Serverless: youtu.be/x0xmqJrAVM8
AWS DMS Fleet Advisor
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- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - Announcing AWS DMS Fleet Advisor in the new AWS DMS studio console experience: youtu.be/mMEONHthZs8
ML/AI
Amazon EC2 Trn1 Instances for ML Training
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- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Introducing AWS Trainium-based Amazon EC2 Trn1 instances: youtu.be/_6y-AWmTako
Amazon SageMaker Notebooks
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-create-and-man..
Amazon SageMaker Training Compiler
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-introducing-sa..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Introducing Amazon SageMaker Training Compiler: youtu.be/IQLMSk4qia4
Amazon SageMaker Inference Recommender
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-amazon-..
Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference
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- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/..
Amazon SageMaker MLOps
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/..
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/..
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/..
Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-amazon-..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Introducing Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus: youtu.be/Y3Lo63yiqsU
Amazon SageMaker Canvas
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-amazon-..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Introducing Amazon SageMaker Canvas: youtu.be/8gm1TD9TXp0
Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab
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- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-in-preview-ama..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Introducing Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab: youtu.be/4Vri7vVh-tg
AI/ML Services
Amazon Textract for Identity documents
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/..
Amazon Personalize
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/impro..
Amazon Kendra
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/enric..
*Amazon Lex
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- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/exped..
IoT
AWS IoT ExpressLink
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- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/..
AWS IoT TwinMaker
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- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Introducing AWS IoT TwinMaker: youtu.be/fdBKRyhC9Yk
AWS IoT FleetWise
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- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/..
AWS IoT RoboRunner
- Preview
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/preview-aws-iot-ro..
- AWS re:Invent 2021 - {New Launch} Improve efficiency of robotics automation with AWS IoT RoboRunner: youtu.be/r6zNGSm6gWM
AWS IoT SiteWise cold tier storage support
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- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/..
FreeRTOS out-of-the-box connectivity
- GA
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/..
- Blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-freertos-exten..