re:Invent Recap (January 2025)

News and insights from AWS re:Invent 2024, hosted by Jon Topper of The Scale Factory.

1. AWS RE:INVENT REFRESH_ JON TOPPER | @jtopper | he/him/his
2. AWS PARTNER SINCE 2014 We work exclusively with AWS, no other cloud vendors. AWARD WINNING AWS SaaS SI Global Partner of the Year 2023 ISO/IEC 27001 CERTIFIED Robust approach to information security. ESTABLISHED 2009 LONDON UK
3. TODAY’S AGENDA SaaS Builders Migrations Saving Money New Instances Improving Security AI/ML
4. UPDATES FOR SAAS BUILDERS_
5. AMAZON AURORA POSTGRESQL LIMITLESS_ GA
6. SCALE TO ZERO FOR AURORA SERVERLESS_ GA
7. DYNAMODB MULTI-REGION STRONG CONSISTENCY_ Now offers RPO=0 Preview in: us-east-1 (N Virginia) us-east-2 (Ohio) us-west-2 (Oregon) P
8. AURORA DSQL_ PostgreSQL compatible Serverless distributed SQL db Multi-region active-active Availability: 99.99% single region 99.999% multiple regions Unlimited scaling P
9. EKS AUTO MODE_ One-click provisioning & maintenance. Includes AWS-specific and popular add-ons Dynamic scaling Continuous cost optimisation Continuous security management: Maximum node lifetime Automated upgrades GA
10. ACCESS VPC RESOURCES WITH AWS PRIVATELINK_ Previously limited to: Network Load Balancer Gateway Load Balancer Now share any VPC resource GA
11. NEW COGNITO FEATURES_ Improved DX and UX Managed Login Passwordless Login Updating Pricing Plans GA
12. BUY WITH AWS_ GA
13. UPDATES FOR MIGRATION_
14. EKS HYBRID NODES_ GA
15. ELASTIC VMWARE SERVICE (EVS)_ Run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) on bare-metal EC2 instances P
16. UPDATES FOR COST SAVING_
17. FROM EARLIER_ Aurora Serverless Scale to Zero EKS Auto Mode
18. SCALE TO ZERO FOR SAGEMAKER_ GA
19. PRICE REDUCTION FOR DYNAMODB_ GA 50% reduction for on-demand throughput. 67% reduction for replicated writes to on-demand global tables. 33% reduction for replicated writes provisioned capacity global tables.
20. AMAZON FSx INTELLIGENT-TIERING_ GA Available to FSx for OpenZFS Automatically move data to cheaper tier when access pattern changes.
21. NEW COMPUTE INSTANCES_
22. i8g STORAGE OPTIMISED_ GA
23. i7ie STORAGE OPTIMISED_ GA
24. P5en GPU POWERED_ GA NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs 4th gen Intel Xeon Scalable CPU EFA v3 networking
25. P6 GPU POWERED_ CS NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs
26. SECURITY IMPROVEMENTS_
27. RESOURCE CONTROL POLICIES (RCPs)_ GA Define and enforce access controls on resources at scale. Enforced at API authorisation level
28. DECLARATIVE POLICIES (DPs)_ GA Declare and enforce desired baseline configuration for services Enforced at service level Provide custom error messages
29. CLOUDFRONT VPC ORIGINS_ GA
30. AWS POST-QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY MIGRATION PLAN_ GA
31. AI/ML IMPROVEMENTS_
32. NOTABLE GENAI LAUNCHES_ Amazon Bedrock Flows Custom Connectors for Bedrock Knowledge Bases Reranking Models in Bedrock Knowledge Bases Amazon Bedrock Marketplace Amazon Nova: New Foundation Models GA
33. NOTABLE GENAI PREVIEWS_ Prompt Optimisation in Amazon Bedrock Amazon Bedrock Model Distillation Automated Reasoning in Bedrock Guardrails Multi-agent collaboration in Bedrock Future Amazon Nova models Prompt routing and caching in Bedrock Multimodal toxicity detection in Guardrails P
34. GENAI ON AWS: MY TAKE_
35. AWS GENAI TRENDS_ Large choice of LLM Security and compliance guardrails Integration with your other data sources Optimisations for performance and cost Development tools for ease of use AWS FMs (on inferentia hardware)
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