This is one of my favorite time of the year when it comes to AWS. Yes, the time around re:Invent where AWS launches a whole bunch of new Services and Features. Over the years, it has become a bit of overwhelming for me with the sheer number of announcements. Last year, during the week of re:Invent 2018 AWS announced about 100 major new Services and Features. This year AWS has gone one step further with pre:Invent. More than 100 new Features/Services already announced in the two weeks run up to re:Invent 2019.
At every re:Invent, AWS continues to push the platform forward with some amazing innovative services. Nobody imagined that AWS would drive a truck to your datacenter. And who thought you could get a Ground Station at a click of a button? May be this year (I am writing this post a week before re:Invent) they would launch a service for “Inter Planetary Travel”. Or a feature in Sagemaker that builds an AWS service automatically from your thoughts.
Jokes apart, AWS would continue to innovate at a rapid clip on behalf of cutsomers and it is super exciting to see all these services coming our way. At the same time, these are shiny new toys that address some very specific use cases. What majority of the customers end up adopting are the Features & Services released in the areas of “fundamental building blocks”. These are in the areas of Compute, Storage, Networking, Secuirty, Analytics, Management Tools and Cost Optimization that are core to most workloads that businesses run on the Cloud.
This series of posts focus on new Services and Features in these building blocks. I will try to collate as much as possible from the rampage of announcements under specific topics. As I add more posts, I will also collate them and list them here so that this post becomes a “master” post by itself.
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