AWS re:Invent 2023 - Empowering SREs with Game-Changing Solutions

AWS re:Invent 2023 kicked off on November 27th. As usual, AWS is unveiling numerous new capabilities every few minutes, and below are the top announcements that have piqued my interest.

I will continue to update this list, primarily for my own reference, to keep track of new announcements without becoming overwhelmed. I will certainly reorganize the order based on my priorities.

This list is current as of 1:30 PM on December 1st.

Observability and Enhanced Anomaly Detection Capabilities

1. Amazon CloudWatch Logs now offers automated pattern analytics and anomaly detection
   Link to Announcement

2. Use anomaly detection with AWS Glue to improve data quality
   Link to Announcement

3. Use natural language to query Amazon CloudWatch logs and metrics
   Link to Announcement

4. Observer applications with AWS CloudWatch Application Signals - For automatic instrumentation of your applications (preview)
   Link to Announcement

Enhancements to GenAI

1. Build generative AI apps using AWS Step Functions and Amazon Bedrock
   Link to Announcement

2. Introducing Amazon Q, a new generative AI-powered assistant (preview)
   Link to Announcement

3. Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock helps implement safeguards customized to your use cases and responsible AI policies (preview)
   Link to Announcement

4. New myApplications in the AWS Management Console simplifies managing your application resources
   Link to Announcement

Agentless capabilities activated

1. Amazon Inspector agentless vulnerability assessments for Amazon EC2 now in preview
   Link to Announcement

2. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector provides agentless metric collection for Amazon EKS
   Link to Announcement

Enhancements to Serverless

1. AWS Lambda functions now scale 12 times faster when handling high-volume requests
   Link to Announcement

2. Amazon Aurora Limitless Database
   Link to Announcement

3. Amazon ElastiCache Serverless for Redis and Memcached is now available
   Link to Announcement

Enhancements to CodeWhisperer

1. Amazon CodeWhisperer offers new AI-powered code remediation, IaC support, and integration with Visual Studio Link to Announcement

Storage

1. Announcing the new Amazon S3 Express One Zone high performance storage class Link to Announcement

Chaos Engineering

1. Route53 Application Recovery controller : Zonal autoshift – Automatically shift your traffic away from Availability Zones when we detect potential issues
   Link to Announcement

2. Use AWS Fault Injection Service launches two chaos scenarios, AZ Availability Power Interruption and Cross Region Connectivity
   Link to Announcement