Announcements during AWS re:invent 2018 - Andy Jassy Keynote

Databases

• DynamoDB Read/Write capacity on demand
  no longer have to pre-provision r/w capacity - pay per request pricing

  Example of pricing in eu-west-1:

  • Provisioned capacity
    • Write capacity: $0.000735 per WCU / hour
      1 unit for each 1KB write op / sec, 2 units for transactional writes
    • Read capacity: $0.000147 per RCU / hour
      1 unit for each 4KB strongly consistent read op / sec, 2 units for transactional reads, 0.5 for eventually consistent reads
    • Storage: $0.283 / GB
  • On-demand capacity
    • Write capacity: $1.414 per million write units
      1 unit for each 1KB write op, 2 units for transactional writes
    • Read capacity: $0.2827 per million read units
      1 unit for each 4KB strongly consistent read op, 2 units for transactional reads, 0.5 units for eventually consistent reads
    • Storage: $0.283 / GB

• Amazon Timestream (preview)
  serverless timeseries database - data is stored on different backends (in-memory, SSD, magnetic) with different retentions and pricing

Storage

• New S3 storage class: Glacier Deep Archive (coming soon)
  replace tape archives - about $1 / TB storage - eleven 9s of durability - retrieval time within 12 hours

• EFS IA (Infrequent Access Storage) (coming soon)

• AWS Lake Formation

Machine Learning

• Amazon Elastic Inference
  attach GPU acceleration to any EC2 instance for faster machine learning inference

• AWS Inferentia (late 2019)
  AWS-designed machine learning inference chip

• Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth
  build training datasets using machine learning

• Amazon SageMaker RL
  reinforcement learning algorithms available in SageMaker

• AWS Marketplace for machine learning

• AWS DeepRacer (preview on Amazon.com)
  ML-powered 1/18th scale race-car equippted with a camera, accelerometer and gyroscope

• Amazon Textract (preview)
  OCR capable of extracting layout as well (ie. tables)

• Amazon Personalize
  ML-powered recommendations as a service

• Amazon Forecast
  ML-powered time-series forecasting as a service

Security

• AWS Control Tower
  setup a landing zone in a multi-account AWS environment

• AWS Security Hub
  centrally view and manage security alerts and automate compliance checks

Blockchain

• Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (preview)
  managed ledger database providing a transparent, immutable, and cryptographically verifiable transaction log - internally used by AWS since few years

• Amazon Managed Blockchain (preview)

Hybrid

• AWS Outposts (2019)
  run AWS infrastructure on premise

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Incontro DevOps 2020	Virtual	22 October 2020

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