Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2023

Post Syndicated from AWS Editorial Team original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/top-announcements-of-aws-reinvent-2023/

Welcome to Las Vegas, where excitement fills the air for the premier AWS event of the year – re:Invent 2023! Happening Nov. 27 – Dec. 1, re:Invent 2023 offers keynotes, training, Innovation Talks, AWS Builder Labs, and much more to inspire you on your cloud journey.

Can’t make it in person? Tune in to the live streams of the keynotes, and check back here as we provide daily updates on the most exciting product launches.

If you don’t want to miss a thing, here are a few more ways to keep in touch:

(This post was last updated: 5:05 p.m. PST, Nov. 26, 2023.)


Use natural language to query Amazon CloudWatch logs and metrics (preview)
To make it easy to interact with your operational data, Amazon CloudWatch is introducing natural language query generation for Logs and Metrics Insights.

Increase collaboration and securely share cloud knowledge with AWS re:Post Private
re:Post Private includes content tailored specifically for your organization’s use cases, along with private discussion and collaboration forums for the members of your organization and your AWS account team.

Use anomaly detection with AWS Glue to improve data quality (preview)
This new feature will help to improve your data quality by using machine learning to detect statistical anomalies and unusual patterns.

Mutual authentication for Application Load Balancer reliably verifies certificate-based client identities
With this new feature, you can now offload client authentication to Application Load Balancer, ensuring only trusted clients communicate with backend applications.

Check your AWS Free Tier usage programmatically with a new API
You can use the API directly with the AWS Command Line Interface or integrate it into an application with the AWS SDKs.

Use Amazon CloudWatch to consolidate hybrid, multicloud, and on-premises metrics
You can now consolidate metrics from your hybrid, multicloud, and on-premises data sources using Amazon CloudWatch and process them in a consistent, unified fashion.

Announcing cross-region data replication for Amazon WorkSpaces
Snapshots are taken every 12 hours, replicated to the desired destination region, and are used to provide a recovery point objective of 12-24 hours.

Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics adds new generative AI-powered call summaries (preview)
Powered by Amazon Bedrock, this feature helps businesses improve customer experience, and agent and supervisor productivity by automatically summarizing customer service calls.

Build generative AI apps using AWS Step Functions and Amazon Bedrock
Step Functions provides two new optimized API actions for Amazon Bedrock: InvokeModel and CreateModelCustomizationJob.

New Cost Optimization Hub centralizes recommended actions to save you money
This new AWS Billing and Cost Management feature makes it easy for you to identify, filter, aggregate, and quantify savings for AWS cost optimization recommendations.

Amazon CloudWatch Logs now offers automated pattern analytics and anomaly detection
Amazon CloudWatch can now automatically recognize and cluster patterns among log records, extract noteworthy content and trends, and notify you of anomalies using advanced machine learning algorithms.

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector provides agentless metric collection for Amazon EKS
This new capability discovers and collects Prometheus metrics from Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) automatically and without an agent.

Optimize your storage costs for rarely-accessed files with Amazon EFS Archive
We’ve added a new storage class for Amazon Elastic File System optimized for long-lived data that is rarely accessed.

New Amazon CloudWatch log class for infrequent access logs at a reduced price
This new log class offers a tailored set of capabilities at a lower cost for infrequently accessed logs, enabling customers to consolidate all their logs in one place in a cost-effective manner.