My 7 Favorite Announcements from AWS re:Invent 2022
Tags: aws, cloud, beginners, database
Published: 2022-12-05 14:27:01


Were you overwhelmed by 100s of announcements at re:Invent last week? Here is the ultimate list of **the 7 most important ones** 💥.

Just kidding, this is only my very personal selection (as a cloud architect and an AWS Data Hero) of the announcements that I found curious, useful, or a significant step forward 🙌. 

You can find my full recap of re:Invent 2022 on [InfoQ](https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/12/recap-reinvent-2022/). 

Let me know what you think and if I missed something obvious!


#### RDS Blue/Green Deployments

At the beginning of the conference, AWS[ announced the general availability of RDS Blue/Green Deployments](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-fully-managed-blue-green-deployments-in-amazon-aurora-and-amazon-rds/), a new feature for Aurora with MySQL compatibility, RDS for MySQL, and RDS for MariaDB to perform blue/green database updates. I love MySQL and I love RDS, this has to be on the top of my list.


#### Lambda SnapStart

[Lambda SnapStart](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/snapstart.html) is now available for Java. It has been one of the announcements [better received](https://lumigo.io/blog/aws-lambda-cold-starts-are-about-to-get-faster/) by developers as it addresses one of the limitations of implementing serverless Java applications.  


#### SimSpace Weaver

The new [SimSpace Weaver](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-simspace-weaver-build-large-scale-spatial-simulations-in-the-cloud/) service targets a niche market that runs large-scale spatial simulations at scale, avoiding that a developer is limited by the computing and memory of the hardware. 


#### Aurora zero-ETL integration with Redshift

Enabling near real-time analytics and machine learning, Aurora's ["zero-ETL" integration with Redshift](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/amazon-aurora-zero-etl-integration-redshift/) is now available in preview.

#### OpenSearch Serverless

[Controversially priced](https://twitter.com/realchrisebert/status/1599199583984226305), OpenSearch Serverless manages the provisioning and scaling of the resources to deliver data ingestion and query responses using ElastingSearch-compatible APIs.  Not everybody is convinced that naming  “serverless” every [autoscaling](https://twitter.com/ben11kehoe/status/1597637965496299520) service is a good idea. 


#### DataZone

[DataZone](https://aws.amazon.com/datazone/) is a management service to share, search, and discover data at scale across organizational boundaries. All the data in DataZone is governed by access and use policies that the organization can define. 	


#### CloudWatch Internet Monitor

Monitoring data about internet traffic before it reaches the application layer, [Internet Monitor](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/cloudwatch-internet-monitor-end-to-end-visibility-into-internet-performance-for-your-applications/) uses the connectivity data that AWS captures from their global networking to determine a baseline of performance and availability. 


#### Clean Rooms

At the end of the first keynote, Adam Selipsky announced [Clean Rooms](https://aws.amazon.com/clean-rooms/). With a [questionable name ](https://twitter.com/fayecloudguru/status/1597657403033780224)for a company that recently acquired iRobot, the new service (in preview) helps collaborate with other companies on AWS without sharing or revealing underlying data. 

This is just a very personal and small selection of the top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2022. You can find my full recap of the conference on [InfoQ](https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/12/recap-reinvent-2022/). 

What were your favorite announcements? I would love to know what you think 💚.