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Recap of AWS re:Invent 2020
This year the annual re:invent conference organized by AWS was virtual, free and three weeks long. During multiple keynotes and sessions, AWS announced new features, improvements and cloud services. Here is a review of the main announcements impacting compute, database, storage, networking, machine learning and development.
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AWS Announces Amazon SageMaker Edge Manager
Recently AWS announced a new capability of SageMaker called Amazon SageMaker Edge Manager. This new capability in SageMaker makes it easy for customers to prepare, run, monitor, and update machine learning models on fleets of edge devices such as smart cameras, robots, and industrial machines.
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AWS Introduces New Instance Types for Amazon EC2
AWS recently announced new instance types for Amazon EC2 on different processors and for different EC2 families. Most of the new instances are already available, even if only in a subset of regions; others are expected by the end of the month.
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AWS Lambda Updates from re:Invent - Cost Savings, More Memory Capacity and Container Image Support
At the annual re:Invent, AWS announced several updates to its Function-as-a-Service offering Lambda. These newly announced features evolve around billing, memory capacity, and container image support.
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Amazon S3 Now Delivers Strong Read-After-Write Consistency
To guarantee higher availability and better performances, S3 has for years relied on an eventual consistency model. During the first week of re:invent, AWS announced that S3 now supports strong read-after-write consistency.
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Deploy Salesforce on Major Public Clouds with Hyperforce
In a recent press release, Salesforce announced Hyperforce, a new capability allowing customers to deploy Salesforce on major public cloud platforms Azure, AWS, Google, and Alibaba. With Hyperforce, the company redesigned the Salesforce architecture to provide a more scalable platform for its global customer base.
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AWS Introduces Proton - a New Container Management Service in Public Preview
During the annual AWS re:Invent developer conference, the public cloud provider announced the public preview of AWS Proton, a new fully-managed deployment service for container and serverless applications. With AWS Proton, customers can automate and manage infrastructure provisioning and code deployments for serverless and container-based applications.
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AWS Now Offering Mac Mini-Based EC2 Instances
Announced at re:Invent 2020, AWS new EC2 Mac Instances enable running macOS on Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute to build, test, package, and sign Xcode applications for Apple platforms, including macOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, and Safari.
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AWS Announces New Database Service Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL in Preview
During the AWS re:Invent keynote, AWS announced the new database service Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL in Preview. The service is a fully-managed, PostgreSQL-compatible and ACID-compliant relational database engine that runs in the Amazon cloud and is open-source.
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AWS Introduces Preview of Aurora Serverless v2
During the first keynote of re:Invent 2020, AWS announced the next version of Amazon Aurora Serverless in preview. The new serverless version for the MySQL 5.7-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora scales in fraction of a second and introduces multi-AZ support, global databases, and read replicas.
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AWS Introduces Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow
Recently, AWS introduced Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA), a fully-managed service simplifying running open-source versions of Apache Airflow on AWS and build workflows to execute extract-transform-load (ETL) jobs and data pipelines.
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AWS Announces Gateway Load Balancer
AWS Gateway Load Balancer is a new fully-managed network gateway and load balancer. The service is tailored to deploy, scale and manage third-party virtual appliances such as firewalls, intrusion detection, prevention systems and deep packet inspection systems in the cloud.
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AWS Announces New Service: Amazon S3 Storage Lens
AWS announces a new service called Amazon S3 Storage Lens, which can provide customers with organization-wide visibility into their object storage usage and activity trends. With the service, they can understand what happens across their S3 Object Storage installations.
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BBC Online Going Serverless
In a recent article, the BBC engineering team describes the work done moving BBC Online to the cloud and to a serverless deployment. Half of the BBC’s website is now rendered serverlessly with AWS Lambda.
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AWS Announces New S3 Intelligent-Tiering Archive Access Tiers
S3 Intelligent-Tiering is a storage class, which AWS added to Amazon S3 for optimization of storage costs for its users. The company recently announced it would add two new archive access tiers designed for asynchronous access optimized for rare access at a very low cost: Archive Access tier and Deep Archive Access tier.