Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2024

AWS re:Invent 2024, our flagship annual conference, is taking place Dec. 2-6, 2024, in Las Vegas. This premier cloud computing event brings together the global cloud computing community for a week of keynotes, technical sessions, product launches, and networking opportunities. As AWS continues to unveil its latest innovations and services throughout the conference, we’ll keep you updated here with all the major product announcements.

Additional re:Invent resources:

• AWS News Blog: Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr and colleagues keep you posted on the biggest and best new AWS offerings.
• What’s New with AWS: A comprehensive list of all AWS launches.
• The Official AWS Podcast: A podcast for developers and IT professionals looking for the latest news and trends from AWS.
• AWS On Air: Live-streamed announcements and hands-on demos.
• AWS re:Post: Join the community in conversation through Q&A.

(This post was last updated: 9:08 p.m. PST, Dec. 1, 2024.)

Quick category links:

Analytics | Application Integration | Business Applications | Compute | Containers | Database | Generative AI / Machine Learning | Management & Governance | Migration & Transfer Services | Security, Identity, & Compliance | Storage

Analytics

AWS Clean Rooms now supports multiple clouds and data sources
With expanded data sources, AWS Clean Rooms helps customers securely collaborate with their partners’ data across clouds, eliminating data movement, safeguarding sensitive information, promoting data freshness, and streamlining cross-company insights.

Application Integration

Business Applications

Newly enhanced Amazon Connect adds generative AI, WhatsApp Business, and secure data collection
Use innovative tools like generative AI for segmentation and campaigns, WhatsApp Business, data privacy controls for chat, AI guardrails, conversational AI bot management, and enhanced analytics to elevate customer experiences securely and efficiently.

Compute

Introducing storage optimized Amazon EC2 I8g instances powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and 3rd gen AWS Nitro SSDs
Elevate storage performance with AWS’s newest I8g instances, which deliver unparalleled speed and efficiency for I/O-intensive workloads.

Now available: Storage optimized Amazon EC2 I7ie instances
New AWS I7ie instances deliver unbeatable storage performance: up to 120TB NVMe, 40% better compute performance and up to 65% better real-time storage performance.

Containers

Use your on-premises infrastructure in Amazon EKS clusters with Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes
Unify Kubernetes management across your cloud and on-premises environments with Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes – use existing hardware while offloading control plane responsibilities to EKS for consistent operations.

Streamline Kubernetes cluster management with new Amazon EKS Auto Mode
With EKS Auto Mode, AWS simplifies Kubernetes cluster management, automating compute, storage, and networking, enabling higher agility and performance while reducing operational overhead.

Database

Amazon MemoryDB Multi-Region is now generally available
Build highly available, globally distributed apps with microsecond latencies across Regions, automatic conflict resolution, and up to 99.999% availability.

Generative AI / Machine Learning

New RAG evaluation and LLM-as-a-judge capabilities in Amazon Bedrock
Evaluate AI models and applications efficiently with Amazon Bedrock’s new LLM-as-a-judge capability for model evaluation and RAG evaluation for Knowledge Bases, offering a variety of quality and responsible AI metrics at scale.

Enhance your productivity with new extensions and integrations in Amazon Q Business
Seamlessly access AI assistance within work applications with Amazon Q Business’s new browser extensions and integrations.

New APIs in Amazon Bedrock to enhance RAG applications, now available
With custom connectors and reranking models, you can enhance RAG applications by enabling direct ingestion to knowledge bases without requiring a full sync, and improving response relevance through advanced reranking models.

Introducing new PartyRock capabilities and free daily usage
Unleash your creativity with PartyRock’s new AI capabilities: generate images, analyze visuals, search hundreds of thousands of apps, and process multiple docs simultaneously – no coding required.

Management & Governance

Container Insights with enhanced observability now available in Amazon ECS
With granular visibility into container workloads, CloudWatch Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon ECS enables proactive monitoring and faster troubleshooting, enhancing observability and improving application performance.

New Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights: Comprehensive database observability from fleets to instances
Monitor Amazon Aurora databases and gain comprehensive visibility into MySQL and PostgreSQL fleets and instances, analyze performance bottlenecks, track slow queries, set SLOs, and explore rich telemetry.

New Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon OpenSearch Service launch an integrated analytics experience
Unlock out-of-the-box OpenSearch dashboards and two additional query languages, OpenSearch SQL and PPL, for analyzing CloudWatch logs. OpenSearch customers can now analyze CloudWatch Logs without having to duplicate data.

Migration & Transfer Services

AWS Database Migration Service now automates time-intensive schema conversion tasks using generative AI
AWS DMS Schema Conversion converts up to 90% of your schema to accelerate your database migrations and reduce manual effort with the power of generative AI.

Announcing AWS Transfer Family web apps for fully managed Amazon S3 file transfers
AWS Transfer Family web apps are a new resource that you can use to create a simple interface for authorized line-of-business users to access data in Amazon S3 through a customizable web browser.

Introducing default data integrity protections for new objects in Amazon S3
Amazon S3 updates the default behavior of object upload requests with new data integrity protections that build upon S3’s existing durability posture.

Security, Identity, & Compliance

New AWS Security Incident Response helps organizations respond to and recover from security events
AWS introduces a new service to streamline security event response, providing automated triage, coordinated communication, and expert guidance to recover from cybersecurity threats.

Introducing Amazon GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection: AI/ML attack sequence identification for enhanced cloud security
AWS extends GuardDuty with AI/ML capabilities to detect complex attack sequences across workloads, applications, and data, correlating multiple security signals over time for proactive cloud security.

Simplify governance with declarative policies
With only a few steps, create declarative policies and enforce desired configuration for AWS services across your organization, reducing ongoing governance overhead and providing transparency for administrators and end users.

AWS Verified Access now supports secure access to resources over non-HTTP(S) protocols (preview)
With only a few steps, create declarative policies and enforce desired configuration for AWS services across your organization, reducing ongoing governance overhead and providing transparency for administrators and end users.

Introducing Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon Security Lake integration to simplify security analytics
Analyze security logs without data duplication; Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers zero-ETL integration with Amazon Security Lake for efficient threat hunting and investigations.

Storage

Announcing Amazon FSx Intelligent-Tiering, a new storage class for FSx for OpenZFS
Delivering NAS capabilities with automatic data tiering among frequently accessed, infrequent, and archival storage tiers, Amazon FSx Intelligent-Tiering offers high performance up to 400K IOPS, 20 GB/s throughput, seamless integration with AWS services.

New physical AWS Data Transfer Terminals let you upload to the cloud faster
Rapidly upload large datasets to AWS at blazing speeds with the new AWS Data Transfer Terminal, secure physical locations offering high throughput connection.

Connect users to data through your apps with Storage Browser for Amazon S3
Storage Browser for Amazon S3 is an open source interface component that you can add to your web applications to provide your authorized end users, such as customers, partners, and employees, with access to easily browse, upload, download, copy, and delete data in S3.