AWS re:Invent 2022 Highlights

Last updated on June 25, 2023

If you’re new to AWS and haven’t heard of re:Invent, this is a global cloud community event where AWS announces new features and services. You also get to meet like-minded IT professionals who are eager to learn more about cloud computing. For November 28, 2022 – December 2, 2022, the biggest, most comprehensive, and the most vibrant event will be held again in Las Vegas.

In this article, we’re going to take a look at the list of new services and updates on existing AWS services.

New AWS services

Name	Description
Amazon CodeCatalyst (Preview)	A unified software development service
Amazon Omics	A service to transform genomic, transcriptomic, and other omics data into insights
Amazon Security Lake	A service that automatically centralizes security data into a purpose-built data lake stored in your account
Amazon Verified Permissions (Preview)	A scalable, fine-grained permissions management and authorization service for custom applications
Amazon VPC Lattice (Preview)	An application layer networking service
AWS AI Service Cards	A new resource for responsible AI
AWS Application Composer (Preview)	Visually design and build serverless applications quickly
AWS Network Manager	Introduction of real-time performance monitoring for the AWS Global Network
AWS SimSpace Weaver	A service for deploying large-scale spatial simulations in the cloud
AWS Supply Chain (Preview)	Mitigate risks and lower costs with an ML-powered supply chain management application
AWS Verified Access	Allows you to secure access to corporate applications without a VPN
AWS Wickr	General Availability of an end-to-end encrypted, enterprise communications service

Updates on AWS services

Name	Description
Amazon AppFlow	Supports over 50 connectors
Amazon Athena	Supports Apache Spark
Amazon Aurora	Supports zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift Trusted language extensions for PostgreSQL
Amazon Braket	Launch of Braket Algorithm Library a pre-built quantum algorithms
Amazon CodeWhisperer	Supports enterprise administrative controls, simple sign-up, and support for new languages
Amazon Connect	Preview of Contact Lens agent performance evaluations forms Preview of step-by-step guides in agent workspace
Amazon DocumentDB	Elastic Clusters is now generally available
Amazon EC2	Introduction of EC2 Spot Ready Software Products Launch of EC2 C6in, C7gn (preview) , Inf2 (preview), and R7iz instances Availability of MS Office AMIs on EC2 with AWS-provided licenses Introduction of Elastic Network Adapter Express
Amazon ECS	Introduction of Service Connect
Amazon Elastic File System	Introduction of 1-Day Lifecycle Management Policy to reduce costs for cold data sets Launches Elastic Throughput 60% lower latencies
Amazon EventBridge	EventBridge Pipes is now generally available
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP	Simplifies access to Multi-AZ file systems from on-premises and peered networks Doubles the maximum throughput capacity and SSD IOPS per file system
Amazon FSx for OpenZFS	Introduction of a new generation of FSx for OpenZFS file system
Amazon GameLift	Supports customer-managed compute with GameLift Anywhere
Amazon GuardDuty	Preview of RDS Protection
Amazon Inspector	Supports AWS Lambda functions
Amazon Kendra	Launches tabular search for HTML documents Expanded language support for semantic search
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose	Supports data stream delivery to Amazon OpenSearch Serverless
Amazon Macie	Introduction of automated sensitive data discovery
Amazon OpenSearch	Launch of OpenSearch Serverless
Amazon QuickSight	QuickSight Q supports automated data preparation QuickSight Q new question types Introduction of paginated reports Expanded API capabilities are generally available
Amazon RDS	RDS Optimized Writes enables up to 2x higher write throughput at no additional cost RDS Optimized Reads up to 50% faster queries on Amazon RDS for MySQL SupportsRDS Blue/Green Deployments Trusted language extensions for PostgreSQL
Amazon Redshift	Support for dynamic data masking (preview) General Availability of real-time streaming ingestion for Amazon KDS and Amazon MSK Integration for Apache Spark with Amazon EMR Extends SQL capabilities to simplify and speed up data warehouse migrations (preview) Integration with Informatica Data Loader tool to accelerate data uploads at no cost Supports auto-copy from Amazon S3 Data sharing now supports centralized access control with AWS Lake Formation (Preview) Preview of Multi-AZ for RA3 clusters
Amazon Route 53	Preview of application recovery controller zonal shift
Amazon S3	S3 Access Points can be used to delegate access permissions for shared datasets securely. S3 Multi-Region Access Points for new failover controls
Amazon SageMaker	Redesigned User Interface Launch of SageMaker Ready Software Products Supports real-time collaboration SageMaker Jumpstart enables you to easily share ML artifacts Supports Automatic conversion of notebook code to production-ready jobs Launch of SageMaker Autopilot to automate MLOps workflows SageMaker Data Wrangler provides built-in data preparation in notebooks Support for deploying data preparation flows created in Data Wrangler SageMaker Data Wrangler supports over 40 third-party apps as data sources Supports shadow testing Preview of geospatial ML
Amazon Textract	Introduction of Analyze Lending to accelerate loan document processing
Amazon Transcribe	Real-time capabilities in Transcribe Call Analytics API
Amazon VPC	VPC Reachability Analyzer supports network reachability analysis across accounts in AWS Organization
AWS Application Migration Service	Supports application-centric migrations, wave-planning, and more
AWS Backup	Launches delegation of organization-wide backup administration Supports legal hold capability for extended data retention beyond lifecycle policies The backup Audit Manager adds centralized reporting Support for Amazon Redshift Launches application-aware data protection for applications defined using AWS CloudFormation.
AWS CloudTrail Lake	Supports configuration items from AWS Config
AWS CloudWatch	Supports cross-account observability across multiple AWS accounts CloudWatch Logs data protection to detect and protect sensitive data-in-transit Preview of CloudWatch Internet Monitor
AWS Compute Optimizer	Supports external metrics from observability partners
AWS Config	Rules support proactive compliance
AWS Control Tower	Preview of comprehensive control management Introduction of account customization
AWS Data Exchange	Preview: Support for Amazon S3 and AWS Lake Formation
AWS DMS	Launch of Schema Conversion feature
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery	Supports cross-region and cross-AZ failback
AWS Glue	Introduction of AWS Glue Delivery AWS Glue for Apache Spark Native supports Data Lake Frameworks (Apache Hudie, APache Iceberg, Delta Lake) Introduction of AWS Glue 4.0 Launch of Glue for Ray, a new engine option on AWS Glue Preview of AWS Glue Data Quality
AWS Graviton	Introduction of AWS Graviton Delivery Partners
AWS IoT	General Availability for version 5 of MQTT message broker (MQTT5) IoT Device Management Jobs support scheduling configuration IoT Core announces new Device Location feature
AWS KMS	Launches external key store
AWS Lambda	Introduction of Lambda SnapStart for Java functions
AWS Local Zones	General availability of Local Zones in Buenos, Aries, Copenhagen, Helsinki, and Muscat
AWS Machine Learning University	Introduction of educator enablement program for higher education
AWS Marketplace	Marketplace for containers supports direct deployment to EKS clusters Introduction of Marketplace Vendor Insights to streamline vendor risk assessments
AWS Nitro Enclaves	Supports Amazon EKS and Kubernetes
AWS Organizations	Supports delegated administrator
AWS Outposts	Availability in Qatar, Guatemala, and Trinidad & Tobago
AWS re:Post	Integration with AWS Builder ID and the ability to link multiple logins to a single re:Post profile
AWS Step Functions	Launches large-scale parallel workflows for data processing and serverless applications
Elastic Load Balancing	Capabilities for app availability
Torn Write Prevention	Support for EC2 I4i instances, EBS, and Amazon RDS

Final Remarks

Maybe you’re wondering how you can join the event. Is it a free or a paid event? Unfortunately, you have to purchase re:Invent ticket to attend the said event. But if you’re too far and going to miss the event, the good news is that you can watch the highlights on-demand on the AWS events website. You should also follow the social media sites of AWS to stay updated on news and upcoming events.

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Written by: Gerome Pagatpatan

Gerome is a Software Engineer with 5 cloud certifications from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle. He co-authored high-quality educational materials in the cloud computing space, which have been used by over a quarter-million people worldwide. He is also part of the AWS Community Builders program, which aims to help fellow IT professionals advance their careers in the cloud. He is passionate about education, and now it's his turn to share his knowledge, experiences, and passion for cloud computing.