This document summarizes announcements from AWS re:Invent about new and updated AWS storage, compute, database, analytics, networking and security services. Key announcements include new storage classes for Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive and Amazon EFS Infrequent Access, performance increases for Amazon EBS volumes, and new managed database services Amazon Timestream and Amazon Quantum Ledger Database. New compute instances like Amazon EC2 C5n and P3dn were also announced.

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AWS re:Invent re:Cap
Nicki Klein
Sr. Technical Evangelist
AWS
@nicki_23
AM Grobelny
Sr. Technical Evangelist
AWS
@amsxbg

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60 minutes
Over 100
Announcements

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Introducing
Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive
Storage
Secure, durable, and extremely low-cost storage service for long term data archival
Fully managed
without tape
burden
Less than 1/10
of 1 cent/GB/
month
Designed for
99.999999999%
durability
Recover
data in
hours
Limited Preview

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Introducing
Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering
Storage
A new storage class that automatically optimizes storage costs
for data with unknown or changing access patterns

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Amazon EBS Performance Increases
Storage
2x performance increase for io1 and 60% performance increase for gp2 volumes
Achieve up to 16,000 IOPS
and 256 MB/s of
throughput per gp2 volume
Use fewer volumes and operational staff to achieve maximum
performance for your applications
Achieve up to 64,000 IOPS
and 1,000 MB/s of
throughput per io1 volume

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Introducing
Amazon EFS Infrequent Access
Storage
Lower-priced storage for infrequently accessed data
Cost Optimized for
Infrequent Access
Lower price than
standard tier
Easy to Manage
Users configure
lifecycle policies
between classes
Single File System
Store infrequently and
frequently accessed
files in the same data
set

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Introducing
Amazon FSx
Storage
Fully managed third-party file systems optimized for a variety of workloads
Fully managed Native compatibility
and AWS integrations
Cost-effective
Amazon FSx provides native compatibility of third-party file systems, with the feature
sets for workloads such as Windows-based storage, high performance computing
(HPC), and machine learning.

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Introducing
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
Storage
Lift and shift your Windows file storage with fully managed windows file servers
Fast and flexible
performance
Native Windows
compatibility
Broad accessibility

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Introducing
Amazon FSx for Lustre
Storage
Fully managed Lustre file system for compute-intensive workloads
Massively
scalable
performance
Seamless access to
your data on S3
Cost-optimized for
compute-intensive
workloads
100+ GB/s throughput
Millions of IOPS
Consistent sub-millisecond latencies

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Introducing
AWS DataSync
Storage
Online transfer service that simplifies, automates, and accelerates moving data
Transfers up
to 10 Gbps per
agent
Pay as you goSimple data
movement to S3
or EFS
Secure and
reliable
transfers
Replicate data to AWS for
business continuity
Transfer data for timely
in-cloud analysis
Migrate active application
data to AWS
Combines the speed and reliability of network acceleration software with the cost-effectiveness of open source tools
AWS integrated
AWS

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Introducing
AWS Transfer for SFTP
Storage
Fully managed service makes it easy to integrate SFTP-based file transfers into AWS
Move your existing SFTP workflows to AWS in 3 steps
Seamless
migration
of existing
workflows
Data available for
archiving and
processing in S3
Simple
to use
Cost
effective
Fully managed,
highly available,
and elastically
scalable
1 2 3

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Introducing
AWS Lake Formation
Analytics
Build, secure, and manage data lakes, reducing the set up time from months to days
Limited Preview

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Introducing
Amazon EC2 C5n instances
Compute
Latest addition to the C5 family providing up to 100 Gbps of networking
throughput, optimized for network intensive applications and HPC workloads

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Introducing
Elastic Fabric Adapter
Networking
Limited Preview
Scale tightly-coupled HPC applications on AWS
Faster results Flexible configuration Easy migration

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Introducing
Amazon EC2 P3dn Instances
Compute
Preannouncement
New larger EC2 P3 instance size: P3dn.24xlarge,
optimized for distributed machine learning training
• The fastest GPU instance available in the cloud for machine learning training
• 100 Gbps of networking throughput
• 96 vCPU using AWS Custom Skylake CPUs and 768 GB of system memory
• Based on NVIDIA’s latest GPU Tesla V100 with 32 GB of memory

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Introducing
EC2 A1 Instance
Compute
The first EC2 instances to be powered by custom-designed AWS Graviton
processors based on the Arm architecture
Up to 45% cost savings,
higher price/performance
AWS Graviton Processor
with Arm-based cores and
customized silicon
A1
Ease-of-Use Tools and Abstractions

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Introducing
Firecracker
Compute
Open source virtualization technology purpose-built for creating
and managing secure, multitenant containers and functions-based services
Security
Minimal device model
reduces memory footprint
and attack surface area
User-space code in <125ms,
150 microVM
per second per host
Low memory overhead with
high density (thousands) of
microVMs on each server

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Introducing
Amazon Aurora Global Databases
Databases
Run as a single database spanning multiple regions

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Introducing
DynamoDB On-Demand
Databases
Automatically and instantly scales up and down, and pay only for what’s used
No capacity planning
Instant scaling
Pay-per-request pricing
No need to specify read and write
capacity units or target utilization
percentages
The read and write capacity you
need is always available and
automatically pre-provisioned
Pay only when your tables are used

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Introducing
Amazon Timestream
Databases
Fast, scalable, and fully managed time-series database
Process trillions of events
daily; Up to 1000X faster
queries at 1/10th the cost of
relational databases
Built-in analytics
SQL-like language and built-
in functions to query and
analyze time-series data.
Use AI/ML for forecasting
and anomaly detection
No servers to manage
Serverless with auto scaling
to adjust capacity and
performance. Fully
managed by AWS
1,000x Faster at 1/10th the cost
Limited Preview

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Introducing
Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK)
Analytics
Secure, highly available, fully managed Apache Kafka service;
provisions Apache Kafka and Zookeeper nodes, and manages upgrades
Apache Kafka
compatible
Fully managed Highly available Highly secure
Migrate and run existing
Apache Kafka applications to
AWS with no code changes
Manages the provisioning,
configuration, scaling, and
maintenance of Apache Kafka
clusters and Apache
Zookeeper nodes
Replicates data across
three AZs within
an AWS region;
automatically replaces
unhealthy nodes
Multiple levels of security: network
isolation using
Amazon VPC, data
encryption at rest
Limited Preview

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Introducing
Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)
Databases
Fully managed ledger database;
track and verify history of all changes made to application data
Immutable and
transparent
Cryptographically
verifiable
Easy to useHighly Scalable
Maintains a sequenced record of
all changes to your data, which
cannot be deleted or modified;
you have the ability to query and
analyze the full history
Uses cryptography to
generate a secure output
file of your data’s history
Executes 2 – 3X as many
transactions than ledgers in
common blockchain
frameworks
Easy to use, letting you use
familiar database
capabilities like SQL APIs
for querying the data
Limited Preview

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Introducing
AWS Managed Blockchain
Databases
Managed blockchain service that makes it easy to quickly create and manage
scalable blockchain networks to transact and securely share data
Open
Use Hyperledger Fabric
or Ethereum blockchain
frameworks
Fully Managed
Create an monitor
blockchain networks in
a few clicks
Robust & Durable
Hyperledger Fabric augmented
with the underlying
technology used in Quantum
Integrated
Replicate data to
Quantum for analysis
and use AWS KMS keys
Limited Preview

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Introducing
KMS Custom Key Store
Security
Create a dedicated, single-tenant key store in KMS using AWS CloudHSM
• Increases the level of control over encryption keys that protect
your data across AWS
• Helps you meet mandates to manage keys using hardware
security modules (HSMs) under your control
• Satisfy those requirements and leverage the AWS KMS
integrations offered across dozens of AWS services

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Introducing
AWS Global Accelerator
Networking
A network layer service that customers can deploy in front of their internet
applications built using regional AWS services to improve availability and performance

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Introducing
AWS Transit Gateway
Networking
A new service that allows customers to interconnect
thousands of Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) and on-premises networks
VPN connection
VPN connectionCustomer gateway Amazon VPC Amazon VPCVPC peering
AWS Direct
Connect GatewayVPC peering VPC peeringVPC peering
VPN connection Amazon VPC
Amazon VPC
VPC peering
Transit
gateway
Amazon VPC
Amazon VPC
Amazon VPC
Amazon VPC
AWS direct
connect gateway
Customer
gateway
VPN
connection
Network topology today After Transit Gateway

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Introducing
AWS Resource Access Manager
Security
Simple, secure service to share AWS resources
eliminating the need to
provision duplicate resources in every account
AWS IAM policies to
govern the consumption of shared resources, and AWS
CloudWatch and AWS CloudTrail to provide visibility
efficiently using your resources across
different departments
Share Route 53 Resolver Rules, License Manager Config, Transit Gateways and Subnets

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Introducing
Predictive Scaling
Management Tools
Ramp capacity before you need it with Predictive Scaling
On-premise capacity
provisioning
Time
Load/Capacity
Capacity provisioning with
target tracking
Time
Load/Capacity
Capacity provisioning with predictive
scaling and target tracking
Time
Load/Capacity

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Introducing
CloudWatch Logs Insights
Management Tools
Pay-as-you-go log analytics service for CloudWatch
Purpose-built
for log diving
Resolve operational
problems faster
Connect the dots between
logs and metrics
Fully
managed

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Introducing
Private Marketplace
AWS Marketplace Software
Build a private marketplace that includes
approved vendors and software from AWS Marketplace
Ensure your AWS users are purchasing and launching software that
meets the company’s procurement, legal, and security controls
Customize your private marketplace with company branding, such as
logo, color, and messaging
Define and control permissions for your users in AWS Private
Marketplace
Always know when products are added or removed through
notifications from AWS

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Introducing
AWS License Manager
Compute
Bring existing third-party software licenses to the AWS cloud to reduce licensing costs

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Introducing
AWS Control Tower
Management Tools
Limited Preview
Set-up a multi-account environment in a single location to govern AWS workloads
Automate the creation of a landing zone with best practice blueprints
AWS Control Tower automates the set-up of a well-architected multi-account environment with best practices,
and guides you through a step-by-step process to customize it to your organization
Guardrails for policy enforcement
Control Tower offers curated guardrails. Guardrails are high-level rules that provide on-going governance for
your overall AWS environment
Dashboard for continuous visibility
The Control Tower dashboard gives you continuous visibility into your AWS environment. You can view the
number of organizational units and accounts provisioned, guardrails enabled, and the compliance status of
your enabled guardrails

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Introducing
AWS Security Hub
Security
Public Beta
Centrally view and manage security alerts & automate compliance checks
• Enabled in minutes to aggregate security findings from AWS
and Partner services across your accounts
• Quickly assess security and compliance in one location and
take action on findings
• Built-in and customizable insights help you track security
issues that are unique to your environment
• Improve compliance with automated, continuous account-level
configuration and compliance checks

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Introducing
Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth
K E Y F E AT U R E S
Automatic labeling via
machine learning
Ready-made and
custom workflows
Label
management
Private and public
human workforce
Machine Learning
Label machine learning training data easily and accurately

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Introducing
Amazon SageMaker RL
K E Y F E AT U R E S
Machine Learning
Reinforcement learning for every developer and data scientist
2D & 3D physics
environments and
OpenGym support
Support Amazon Sumerian, AWS
RoboMaker and the open source
Robotics Operating System (ROS) project
Example notebooks and
tutorials

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Introducing
AWS DeepRacer
Starting a competitive racing league
Machine Learning
Limited Preview
Fully autonomous 1/18th scale race car, driven by reinforcement learning

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Introducing
Amazon Elastic Inference
K E Y F E AT U R E S
Integrated with
Amazon EC2 and
Amazon SageMaker
Support for TensorFlow, Apache
MXNet
with PyTorch coming soon
Single and
mixed-precision
operations
Machine Learning
Reduce deep learning inference costs up to 75%

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Introducing
AWS Inferentia
K E Y F E AT U R E S
Support for TensorFlow,
MXNet, and PyTorch
Use with Amazon
EC2, SageMaker,
and Elastic Inference
Optimized for multiple
data types
Combine chips to scale
to thousands of TOPS
Machine Learning
High performance machine learning chip, designed by AWS
Announcement

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Introducing
Amazon SageMaker Neo
K E Y F E AT U R E S
Integrated with Amazon
SageMaker
Open-source compiler and runtime,
1/10th the size of original frameworks
Machine Learning
Train once, run anywhere with 2x the performance

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Natural Language
Processing
Grammar & Parsing Text OCR Computer Vision
Named Entity
Recognition
Video Classification
Speech Recognition Text-to-Speech Speaker Identification Text Classification 3D Images Anomaly Detection
Text Generation Object Detection Regression Text Clustering
Handwriting
Recognition
Ranking
A V A I L A B L E A L G O R I T H M S & P R E - T R A I N E D M O D E L S
S E L E C T E D V E N D O R S
Introducing
AWS Marketplace for Machine Learning
Machine Learning
ML algorithms and models available instantly

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Introducing
Amazon Comprehend Medical
K E Y F E AT U R E S
Medical
Conditions
Anatomy
Entities
PHI
Identification
Medication and
Dosage Extraction
No ML experience
required
Machine Learning
Extract text and data from virtually any document

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• Lipitor: Brand Name
• 20 mg: Dosage
• Once Daily: Frequency
Amazon Comprehend Medical
M r. S m i t h i s a 6 3 - y e a r- o l d
g e n t l e m a n w i t h c o r o n a r y
a r t e r y d i s e a s e a n d
h y p e r t e n s i o n . C U R R E N T
M E D I C AT I O N S : t a k i n g a d o s e
o f L I P I TO R 2 0 m g o n c e d a i l y
• Mr. Smith: Name
• 63 : Age
• Coronary artery : System Organ Site
• Coronary artery disease: Diagnosis Name
• Hypertension: Diagnosis Name
Relationship
extraction
Machine Learning

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Introducing
Amazon Personalize
K E Y F E AT U R E S
Context-aware
Recommendations
Automated
machine learning
Bring existing algorithms
from Amazon SageMaker
Continuous
learning
Data is kept private
and encrypted
Machine Learning
Limited Preview
Improve customer experiences with personalization and recommendations

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Introducing
Amazon Forecast
K E Y F E AT U R E S
Consider
multiple
time-series
at once
Automatic
machine
learning
Visualize forecasts
& import results
into business apps
Evaluate model
accuracy
Privacy &
encryption
Bring existing
algorithms from
Amazon
SageMaker
Machine Learning
Limited Preview
Improve forecasting accuracy by up to 50% at 1/10th the cost
Schedule
forecasts
and training

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Introducing
Amazon Textract
K E Y F E AT U R E S
Optical Character
Recognition
(OCR)
Key-value pair
detection
Adjustable confidence
thresholds
Table
detection
Bounding box
coordinates
No ML experience
required
Machine Learning
Limited Preview
Extract text and data from virtually any document

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Introducing
AWS App Mesh
Networking
Public Beta
A service mesh that makes it easy to
monitor and control large microservices applications

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Introducing
AWS Cloud Map
Networking
Managed service registry for service mapping and discovery
Define friendly names
for all cloud resources
Discover resources
with specific attributes
Ensure only healthy
resources are discovered
Highly available regional
API and global DNS

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Introducing
AWS Marketplace for Containers
AWS Marketplace Software
Container products available in AWS Marketplace
Choose from more than 160 curated
and trusted container products in AWS
Marketplace and run them on AWS
Container product images
are verified and scanned
Products are available with free, bring your own
license, and usage-based pricing models
Deploy container products on
Amazon ECS, AWS Fargate, or EKS
AWS Marketplace
for Containers

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Introducing
Lambda as a Target for Application Load Balancer
Compute
Allows for serverless application architectures to be
registered as a load balancing target
Invoke Lambda functions to serve HTTP(S)
requests
Greater flexibility to mix-and-match servers
and serverless compute for applications using
a single HTTP endpoint
Robust load balancer controls

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Introducing
Lambda Layers Runtime API
Compute
Features which allow developers to share, discover, and deploy
both libraries and languages as part of their serverless applications
Runtime API enables developers
to use Lambda with any
programming language
Layers let functions easily share
code. Upload layer once,
reference within any function
Layers promote separation of
responsibilities, lets developers
focus on writing business logic
Combined, Runtime API and
Layers allow developers to share
any programming language or
language version with others

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Introducing
Amazon API Gateway Supports WebSocket APIs
Networking
Enabling customers to build real-time two-way communication capabilities
within applications without managing connected users and devices

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Introducing
AWS Toolkit for IntelliJ IDEA &
AWS Toolkit for PyCharm
Developer Tools
IntelliJ: Developer Preview
Open Source IDE Toolkits
Support Python at launch
• Java and other languages to follow
Support for Lambda application development
• Templates for easy getting-started
• Integrated step-through debugging
• Easy to deploy
Available in JetBrains Marketplace or
aws.amazon.com/intellij or aws.amazon.com/pycharm
PyCharm: General Availability

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Introducing
AWS Amplify Console
Mobile Services
AWS service that offers continuous delivery and
fully managed hosting for modern web apps

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Introducing
AWS RoboMaker
Enables developers to quickly and easily build intelligent robotics applications
Regression test before deploying
a fix or new feature
Remote application deployment,
update, and management
New Category
Updated
slide

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Introducing
New Snowball Edge Compute Options
New version of Snowball Edge, with proportionally more compute
than storage, to run compute-intensive applications at the edge
Storage

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Introducing
AWS Ground Station
New Category
Limited Preview
Fully managed global Ground Station as a Service
to control, ingest, and process data from satellites
Schedule satellite
contacts via GUI-
based console
SCHEDULE
Downlink satellite data
and uplink commands on-
demand
DOWNLINK
& UPLINK
Control, command,
and monitor
satellites
CONTROL
No need to build
or manage
ground stations
DON’T
BUILD
Pay per minute
with no long-term
commitments
PAY PER
USE
GROUND
STATION AS A
SERVICE
Fully managed global
network of ground
stations and antennas

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Introducing
Amazon RDS on VMware
Databases
Limited Preview
Managed Service for On-Premises Databases

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Introducing
Hybrid Cloud: AWS Outposts
Compute
AWS coming to a data center near you in two ways

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Introducing
AWS Well-Architected Tool
Management Tools
A tool to help review the state of cloud workloads
and compare them to the latest AWS architectural best practices

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