AWS re:Invent 2021 Day 3 Recap

AWS re:Invent started on Nov 29th :) 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 is a recap of what was announced on Wednesday, Dec. 1

• AWS Nitro SSD – High Performance Storage for your I/O-Intensive Applications: With AWS Nitro SSD, you can run even more types of workloads.The AWS Nitro SSDs are designed to be installed and to operate at cloud scale. including Nitro Cards to accelerate and offload network and storage I/O.
  
  Read more about this post here: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-nitro-ssd-high-performance-storage-for-your-i-o-intensive-applications/

• New Storage-Optimized Amazon EC2 Instances (Im4gn and Is4gen) Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processors:  Im4gn and Is4gen, are powered by Graviton2 processors. Both instances offer up to 30 TB of NVMe storage using AWS Nitro SSD devices that are custom-built by AWS. As part of our drive to innovate on behalf of our customers, we turned our attention to storage and designed devices that were optimized to support high-speed access to large amounts of data.
  
  Read more here: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-storage-optimized-amazon-ec2-instances-im4gn-and-is4gen-powered-by-aws-graviton2-processors/

• Introducing Karpenter – An Open-Source High-Performance Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler: Karpenter is an open-source, flexible, high-performance Kubernetes cluster autoscaler built with AWS. It helps improve your application availability and cluster efficiency by rapidly launching right-sized compute resources in response to changing application load.
  
  Read more here: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-karpenter-an-open-source-high-performance-kubernetes-cluster-autoscaler/

• Introducing Amazon Braket Hybrid Jobs – Set Up, Monitor, and Efficiently Run Hybrid Quantum-Classical Workloads:  Amazon Braket Hybrid Jobs is a new capability of Amazon Braket that simplifies the process of setting up, monitoring, and efficiently executing hybrid quantum-classical algorithms.
  
  Read more here: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-braket-hybrid-jobs-set-up-monitor-and-efficiently-run-hybrid-quantum-classical-workloads/

• New – Offline Tape Migration Using AWS Snowball Edge: This launch brings a tape migration capability to AWS Snowball Edge devices, and allows you to migrate up to 80 TB of data per device, making it suitable for your petabyte-scale migration efforts.
  
  Read more here: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-offline-tape-migration-using-aws-snowball-edge/

• New – Amazon FSx for OpenZFS: Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, the newest addition to the Amazon FSx family. You can use the Amazon FSx for OpenZFS popular file system without having to deal with hardware provisioning, software configuration, patching, backups, and the like.
  
  Read more here: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-fsx-for-openzfs/

• AWS Announces the General Availability of Amazon WorkSpaces Web: WorkSpaces Web is a new capability from our End User Computing suite – a low cost, fully managed WorkSpace built specifically to facilitate secure, web-based workloads.
  
  Read more here: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/desktop-and-application-streaming/announcing-the-general-availability-of-amazon-workspaces-web/

• New – AWS Marketplace for Containers Anywhere to Deploy Your Kubernetes Cluster in Any Environment: Today, we announce AWS Marketplace for Containers Anywhere, a set of capabilities that allows AWS customers to find, subscribe to, and deploy third-party Kubernetes applications from AWS Marketplace on any Kubernetes cluster in any environment.
  
  Read more here: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-marketplace-for-containers-anywhere-to-deploy-your-kubernetes-cluster-in-any-environment/

• Network Address Management and Auditing at Scale with Amazon VPC IP Address Manager: Today, I’m happy to announce Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM), a new feature that provides network administrators with an automated IP management workflow. IPAM makes it easier for network administrators to organize, assign, monitor, and audit IP addresses in at-scale networks, lowering the management and monitoring burden and eliminating the manual processes that can lead to delays and unintended errors.
  
  Read more here: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/network-address-management-and-auditing-at-scale-with-amazon-vpc-ip-address-manager/

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