AWS re:Invent 2021 Day 1

by Tola Ore-Aruwaji

AWS re:Invent started today :) The year’s biggest Cloud event is being held across multiple sites in Las Vegas, NV, Mon, Nov 29, 2021 – Fri, Dec 3, 2021.

Here are some few announcements today by the AWS team before Adam Selipsky Keynote on Tuesday, Nov. 30 from 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM (PST)

  • Real-User Monitoring for Amazon CloudWatch
    CloudWatch RUM  monitors web applications with the goal of understanding performance and providing an optimal experience for your users. Amazon CloudWatch RUM will help you to collect the metrics that give you the insights that will help you to identity, understand, and improve this experience.

    Read more about this post here: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/cloudwatch-rum/

  • Amazon CloudWatch Evidently – Experiments and Feature Management
    Amazon CloudWatch Evidently is a new Amazon CloudWatch capability that makes it easy for developers to introduce experiments and feature management in their application code. CloudWatch Evidently may be used for two similar but distinct use-cases: implementing dark launches, also known as feature flags, and A/B testing.

    Read more about this post here:
    https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/cloudwatch-evidently/

  • Announcing Pull Through Cache Repositories for Amazon Elastic Container Registry
    Today, AWS announced pull through cache repository support in Amazon Elastic Container Registry, for publicly accessible registries that do not require authentication. Pull through cache repositories offer developers the improved performance, security, and availability of Amazon Elastic Container Registry for container images that they source from public registries.

    Read more about this post here:
    https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-pull-through-cache-repositories-for-amazon-elastic-container-registry/

  • Recycle Bin for EBS Snapshots
    In order to give you more control over the deletion process, AWS is launching a Recycle Bin for EBS Snapshots. you can now set up rules to retain deleted snapshots so that you can recover them after an accidental deletion.

    Read more about this post here:
    https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-recycle-bin-for-ebs-snapshots/

  • Use Amazon S3 Event Notifications with Amazon EventBridge
    AWS announced Amazon EventBridge to build applications that react quickly and efficiently to changes in your S3 objects. This is a new, “directly wired” model that is faster, more reliable, and more developer-friendly than ever. You no longer need to make additional copies of your objects or write specialized, single-purpose code to process events.

    Read more about this post here:
    https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-use-amazon-s3-event-notifications-with-amazon-eventbridge/

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