AWS re:Invent 2020 - Andy Jassy Keynote Highlights
Tags: aws, cloud, serverless, reinvent
Published: 2020-12-01 18:53:58

_[Last year](https://medium.com/techprimers/aws-re-invent-2019-keynote-from-andy-jassy-announcements-b65186a3c63a), I mentioned about not attending the re:Invent 2019 Live from Las Vegas. This year, I still sit at the same view at home with everyone going through the same experience across the globe. I don't think it's a time to be proud about, however I feel we are lucky enough to sustain our work life remotely with less hassle even during this pandemic._
 
The mind boggling number of registered attendees (500,000+) shows the sheer amount of interest and popularity ofAc Amazon Web Services! Period!

# AWS's Innovation Strategies
### What does it take to reInvent?
- Leadership will to invent and reinvent
- Acknowledgement that you can't fight gravity
- Talent that's hungry to invent
- Solving real customer problems with builders
- Speed
- Don't complexify
- Use the platform with the broadest & deepest set of tools
- Pull everything together with aggressive top-down goals

The following are the list of key service updates announced by Andy Jassy in his keynote speech today (December 1).

# Instances
### Habana Gaudi-based Amazon EC2 instances 
ML training powered by new processors from Intel.

### AWS Trainium
ML Training Chip custom designed by AWS to deliver the most cost-effective training in the cloud. Available on EC2 or Sage Maker

# Containers & Serverless
### Amazon ECS Anywhere
Run ECS in your own Data Center

### Amazon EKS Anywhere
Run EKS in your own Data Center. Along with Open Sourced EKS distribution.

### AWS Lambda
- Billing changed from 100ms to 1ms - [Blog post](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-1ms-billing-granularity-adds-cost-savings/)
- Run Lambds with 10Gb of memory and 6vCPUs - [Blog post](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-functions-with-up-to-10-gb-of-memory-and-6-vcpus/)

### Lambda Container Support
Build Lambda-based applications using existing container development workflows. Package as OCI Docker image and deploy as Lambda functions - [Blog post](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-container-image-support/)

### AWS Proton
Fully managed deployment service for microservices lifecycle - [Blog post](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/preview-aws-proton-automated-management-for-container-and-serverless-deployments/)

# Storage
### gp3 volumes for EBS
Provisione IOPs and throughput with new gen SSDs - [Blog post](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ebs-gp3-volume-lets-you-provision-performance-separate-from-capacity-and-offers-20-lower-price/)

### io2 Block Express
The highest IOPS and throughput in the cloud - [Blog post](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-in-preview-larger-faster-io2-ebs-volumes-with-higher-throughput/)

# Database
### Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 (reinvented)
Scale to hundreds of thousands of transaction in a fraction of a second.

### Babelfish for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 
Run SQL Server apps on Aurora PostgreSQL. Stop paying for SQL server licenses. Along with open-sourced Babelfish for PostgreSQL.

# Data
### AWS Glue Elastic Views
Easily combine & replicate data from different data stores (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB) to target data sources (S3, Redshift, Aurora, RDS, DynamoDB, etc.,)

# Machine Learning & Analytics
### Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler
Aggregate and prepare ML features using existing pre-loaded data preparation options.

### Amazon SageMaker Feature Store
New repository to organize, find and share features 

### Amazon SageMaker Pipelines
Purpose built CICD service for ML

### Amazon DevOps Guru
Uses ML to identify operational issues (application issues & fixes) long before they hit customers - [Blog post](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-devops-guru-machine-learning-powered-service-identifies-application-errors-and-fixes/)

### Amazon QuickSight Q
Ask Q any questions in Natural Language and get answers in seconds about business data - [Blog post](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-quicksight-q-to-answer-ad-hoc-business-questions/)

# Customer Intelligence
### Amazon Connect Wisdom
ML to delivery agents the product & service information they need to solve issues realtime. - [Blog post](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-connect-smarter-and-more-integrated/)

### Amazon Connect Customer Profiles
Enables agents to deliver faster, more personalized customer service

### Real-Time Contact Lens for Amazon Connect
Identify realtime impact using ML to detect customer interactions during live calls

### Amazon Connect Tasks
Connect Tasks for follow-up task for agents & automate some tasks entirely

### Amazon Connect Voice ID
ML powered Voice ID for real-tome caller authentication

# IoT
### Amazon Monitron
End-to-End equipment monitoring system to enable predictive maintenance - [Blog post](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-monitron-a-simple-cost-effective-service-enabling-predictive-maintenance/)

### Amazon Lookout for Equipment
Anomaly detection for industrial machinery - [Blog post](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-lookout-for-equipment-analyzes-sensor-data-to-help-detect-equipment-failure/)

### AWS Panorama Appliance & SDK
A new hardware that allows organizations to add computer vision to existing on-premise cameras - [Blog post](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/using-computer-vision-applications-at-the-edge/)

# Hybrid Infrastructure
### AWS Outposts for any location
In two new Sizes

### AWS Local Zones
3 new Local Zones Boston, Houston & Miami

# Other Bonus Announcements (not via the keynote)
### Amazon Elastic Container Registry Public
A New Public Container Registry - [Blog post](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ecr-public-a-new-public-container-registry/)

Andy's Keynote Live Blog by Jeff Barr - [Blog post](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/reinvent-2020-liveblog-andy-jassy-keynote/)