The AWS re:Invent 2016 conference saw over 32,000 attendees and featured over 400 breakout sessions across specialized tracks. There were also over 4 hours of keynotes announcing 15 or more completely new AWS services as well as enhancements to many existing services. Some of the major new services included Amazon Polly for text-to-speech, Amazon Lex for building conversational interfaces, Amazon Rekognition for image analysis, and Amazon Athena for interactive SQL queries on S3 data. A wide range of other services were also announced or improved.

1. AWS re:Invent 2016 recap
Jason Poley
Barclaycard / Entech
jpoley@entech.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonpoley

2. Summary…
~ 400 breakout sessions
with specialized tracks
Over 4 hours of Keynotes
Over 32,000 attendees
15+ completely new
services
many existing services got
enhanced features

3. Overview of Events…
Hackathon
Security Jam
GameDay
Industry Pre-Day
Certifications
Labs
Bootcamps
Breakout Sessions
Global Partner Summit
Mini Con
Tuesday Night Live (James Hamilton)
Keynotes
Workshops
5k run
Pub Crawl
re:play Party
Executive Track
Executive Briefing Centers Sessions

4. AWS Announcements…
 Polly
 Lex
 Rekognition
 Batch
 Glue
 Pinpoint
 Greengrass
 Athena
 OpsWorks Chef
Automate
 CodeBuild
 X-Ray
 Shield
 Lambda@Edge
 Step Functions
 Lightsail
 Snowball Edge
 Snowmobile
 EC2 Systems
Mgr
 Personal Health
Dashboard
 Postgres for
Aurora
 Elastic GPUs
and more….

5. Amazon Polly is a service that
turns text into lifelike speech. It
supports 24 languages and 47
lifelike voices. Create apps that
talk, enabling you to build entirely
new categories of speech-
enabled products.
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6. Amazon Lex is a service for building
conversational interfaces using
voice and text. With Lex, the same
deep learning engine that powers
Alexa is now available to any
developer, enabling you to bring
sophisticated, natural language
chatbots to new and existing
applications.
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7. Amazon Rekognition is a service that makes it easy to add image
analysis to your applications. With Rekognition, you can detect objects,
scenes, and faces in images. You can also search and compare faces.
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8. Shield
AWS Shield is a managed DDoS
protection service that safeguards
your web applications using Elastic
Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon
CloudFront, and Amazon Route 53.
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9. Amazon Pinpoint makes it easy to run targeted push notification
campaigns to improve user engagement in mobile apps. You can use
Pinpoint to define your target segments, run your campaign, and
measure results.
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10. Batch
AWS Batch enables developers, scientists, and engineers to easily and
efficiently run hundreds of thousands of batch computing jobs on AWS.
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11. Glue
AWS Glue is a fully managed ETL service that makes it easy to
understand your data sources, prepare the data, and move it reliably
between data stores. It simplifies and automates data discovery,
transformation, and job scheduling tasks.
Pre-announcement

12. X-Ray
X-Ray captures trace data from code running on EC2 instances
(including ECS containers)
Preview

13. AWS CodeBuild builds and tests code in the cloud. CodeBuild scales
continuously, so your builds are not left waiting in a queue. You are charged
by the minute for the compute resources you use. You can also use
CodeBuild with other AWS services. For example, you can plug CodeBuild
into AWS CodePipeline, which automates building and testing code in
CodeBuild each time you commit a change to your source repository.
CodeBuild is also integrated with AWS Elastic Beanstalk, enabling you to
easily build and test code in CodeBuild for your Elastic Beanstalk
applications.
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14. OpsWorks for Chef Automate
AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate provides a fully managed Chef server
and suite of automation tools for continuous deployment, automated
testing for compliance, and a user interface for visibility into your nodes.
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15. Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to
analyze data in Amazon S3 using SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is
no infrastructure to manage. You pay only for the queries you run.
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16. AWS Step
Functions makes it
easy to coordinate
the components of
distributed
applications and
microservices using
visual workflows.
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17. Lambda@Edge
Lambda@Edge lets you run code at CloudFront edge locations
without provisioning or managing servers. This allows developers to
deliver a low latency user experience for customized web
applications.
Preview

18. You can now use C# with AWS Lambda.
You can now configure a dead letter queue (DLQ) on AWS
Lambda to give you more control over message handling for
all asynchronous invocations, including those delivered via
AWS events (S3, SNS, IoT, etc).
Environment Variables in KMS
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19. Greengrass
AWS Greengrass is software that lets you run local compute,
messaging & data caching for connected devices. Run IoT
applications seamlessly across the AWS cloud and local devices
using AWS Lambda.
Preview

20. Snowball Edge
AWS Snowball Edge is a petabyte-scale data transfer service with on-
board storage and compute.
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21. AWS Snowmobile
AWS Snowmobile is an exabyte-scale data transfer service used to
move extremely large amounts of data.
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22. Elastic GPU for EC2
AWS announces their first attachable Elastic GPUs — the most cost
effective and flexible way to add graphics acceleration to Amazon EC2
Instances.
Preview

23. Instance Improvements
Amazon EC2 C5 instances are the most powerful Compute Optimized instances,
featuring the highest performing processors and the lowest price/compute performance
in EC2.
I3 instances are the latest generation of Storage Optimized High I/O
instances, featuring NVMe based SSDs for the most demanding I/O
intensive relational, NoSQL, transactional, and analytics workloads.
Amazon EC2 R4 instances are the latest generation of Memory
Optimized instances which are 20% more price performant than R3
instances.
t2.xlarge and t2.2xlarge are the newest Amazon EC2 burstable-
performance instances, well-suited for workloads that require a consistent
baseline performance with the ability to burst.
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24. EC2 Systems Manager
Amazon EC2 Systems Manager, helps you automate
important management tasks such as collecting
system inventory, applying OS patches, automating
image creation, and configuring OS and applications
at scale. In addition, you can record and govern your
instance’s software configuration with AWS Config.
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25. Ability for API Gateway to generate documentation based on
an API definition
Developers use custom authorizers to authorize API requests
to their backend using bearer token strategies such as OAuth.
Launch of AWS API Marketplace with the integration between
API Gateway and the AWS Marketplace
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26. fully managed, secure application streaming service that allows you
to stream desktop applications from AWS to any device, without
rewriting them. AppStream 2.0 provides users with instant-on
access to the applications they need, and a responsive, fluid user
experience running in an HTML5 web browser.
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27. IP v6 for VPC
EC2 instances in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now offer
native support for the IPv6 protocol. IPv6 can be enabled for
existing and new VPCs through the AWS management console,
API/SDK and CLI.
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28. Amazon Lightsail is the easiest way to launch
and manage a virtual private server with
AWS. Get everything you need to jumpstart
your project - compute, storage, and
networking - starting at $5/month.
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29. Aurora Improvements
Amazon Aurora is now PostgreSQL compatible. You can get up to twice
the performance of the typical PostgreSQL database and the features
you love in Amazon Aurora.
Aurora SQL Triggers via AWS Lambda
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30. Organizations
AWS Organizations is a new administrative capability, which
allows customers to control multiple AWS accounts centrally,
enabling them to organize and manage their accounts to meet
their business’ budgetary, security, and compliance needs
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31. S3 & Storage
Storage Gateway that provides customers an NFS mount
point mapped to an S3 bucket. Files on the mount point are
backed by objects in customers S3 bucket. Gateway
manages data transfer to AWS, and provides local caching
for low latency access to subset of data on premises.
On-Prem DX Access to EFS
This feature will allow customers to mount EFS file systems
on servers running on prem.
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32. Blox is a collection of open source software that enables
customers to build custom schedulers and integrate third-party
schedulers on top of ECS.
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mxnet – deep learning framework
http://mxnet.io/ https://github.com/dmlc/mxnet

34. AWS Artifact features a comprehensive list of access-controlled
documents relevant to compliance and security in the AWS cloud.
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35. Personalized Dashboards
AWS Personal Health Dashboard gives you
a personalized view of AWS service health.
You’ll get alerts when services you are using
are impacted, and guidance to help keep
your AWS resources healthy.
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36. Questions & Discussion…