AWS re:Invent 2023 - Empowering SREs with Game-Changing Solutions
Tags: aws, sre, awscloudoperations, reinvent2023
Published: 2023-11-28 02:16:11

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](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-logs-now-offers-automated-pattern-analytics-and-anomaly-detection/)

2. Use anomaly detection with AWS Glue to improve data quality
[Link to Announcement](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/use-anomaly-detection-with-aws-glue-to-improve-data-quality-preview/)

3. Use natural language to query Amazon CloudWatch logs and metrics
[Link to Announcement](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/use-natural-language-to-query-amazon-cloudwatch-logs-and-metrics-preview/)

3. Observer applications with AWS CloudWatch Application Signals - For automatic instrumentation of your applications (preview)
[Link to Announcement](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-application-signals-for-automatic-instrumentation-of-your-applications-preview/)


**Enhancements to GenAI**


4. Build generative AI apps using AWS Step Functions and Amazon Bedrock
[Link to Announcement](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/build-generative-ai-apps-using-aws-step-functions-and-amazon-bedrock/)

4. Introducing Amazon Q, a new generative AI-powered assistant (preview)
[Link to Announcement](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-q-a-new-generative-ai-powered-assistant-preview/)

4. Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock helps implement safeguards customized to your use cases and responsible AI policies (preview)
[Link to Announcement](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/guardrails-for-amazon-bedrock-helps-implement-safeguards-customized-to-your-use-cases-and-responsible-ai-policies-preview/)

6. New myApplications in the AWS Management Console simplifies managing your application resources
[Link to Announcement](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-myapplications-in-the-aws-management-console-simplifies-managing-your-application-resources/)


**Agentless capabilities activated**


5. Amazon Inspector agentless vulnerability assessments for Amazon EC2 now in preview
[Link to Announcement](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-inspector-agentless-assessments-ec2-preview/)

6. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector provides agentless metric collection for Amazon EKS
[Link to Announcement](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-managed-service-prometheus-agentless-collector-metrics-eks/)

**Enhancements to Serverless**

7. AWS Lambda functions now scale 12 times faster when handling high-volume requests
[Link to Announcement](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-lambda-functions-now-scale-12-times-faster-when-handling-high-volume-requests/)

7. Amazon Aurora Limitless Database
[Link to Announcement](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/join-the-preview-amazon-aurora-limitless-database/)

7. Amazon ElastiCache Serverless for Redis and Memcached is now available
[Link to Announcement](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-elasticache-serverless-for-redis-and-memcached-now-generally-available/)


**Enhancements to CodeWhisperer**


8. Amazon CodeWhisperer offers new AI-powered code remediation, IaC support, and integration with Visual Studio
[Link to Announcement](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-codewhisperer-offers-new-ai-powered-code-remediation-iac-support-and-integration-with-visual-studio/)

**Storage**

8. Announcing the new Amazon S3 Express One Zone high performance storage class
[Link to Announcement](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-s3-express-one-zone-high-performance-storage-class/)

**Chaos Engineering**


8. Route53 Application Recovery controller : Zonal autoshift – Automatically shift your traffic away from Availability Zones when we detect potential issues
[Link to Announcement](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/zonal-autoshift-automatically-shift-your-traffic-away-from-availability-zones-when-we-detect-potential-issues/)

8. Use AWS Fault Injection Service launches two chaos scenarios,  AZ Availability Power Interruption and Cross Region Connectivity
[Link to Announcement](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/use-aws-fault-injection-service-to-demonstrate-multi-region-and-multi-az-application-resilience/)