It was Werner Vogels turn today at AWS re:Invent to take the stage and to release another wave of announcements. Here’s a snapshot of the announcements made today.
You can read the first key note announcements that were made in our previous blog post here.
Come along to discuss all these and the rest of the announcements at our Monthly AWS User Group event on the 7th December and have some time with our panel of experts and meet your industry peers.
AWS Glue
AWS Glue is a fully managed ETL service that makes it easy to move data between your data stores. AWS Glue simplifies and automates the difficult and time consuming data discovery, conversion, mapping, and job scheduling tasks. AWS Glue guides you through the process of moving your data with an easy to use console that helps you understand your data sources, prepare the data for analytics, and load it reliably from data sources to destinations.
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AWS Batch
AWS Batch enables developers, scientists, and engineers to easily and efficiently run hundreds of thousands of batch computing jobs on AWS. AWS Batch dynamically provisions the optimal quantity and type of compute resources (e.g., CPU or memory optimized instances) based on the volume and specific resource requirements of the batch jobs submitted.
There is no additional charge for AWS Batch. You only pay for the AWS resources (e.g. EC2 instances) you create to store and run your batch jobs.
You can read the official blog post here or signup for a preview on the website here.
Amazon Pinpoint
Amazon Pinpoint, a new service that makes it easy to run targeted campaigns to improve user engagement. Pinpoint helps you understand your users’ behavior, define who to target, what messages to send, when to deliver them, and tracks the results of the campaign.
Pinpoint enables real-time analytics with dashboards for analyzing user engagement, monetization, user demographics, custom events, and funnels so you can understand how users engage with your application.
Read the official blog post here or get started on the website
AWS Shield
AWS Shield is a new managed service that protects your web applications against DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks. It works in conjunction with Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon Route 53 and protects you from DDoS attacks of many types, shapes, and sizes.
Read the full blog post here and get started on the official website here
Lambda Edge
This new Lambda-based processing model allows you to write JavaScript code that runs within the ever-growing network of AWS edge locations.
You can now write lightweight request processing logic that springs to life quickly and handles requests and responses that flow through a CloudFront distribution. You can run code in response to four distinct events.
Lambda Edge is launching in limited preview and you can apply to try it out here if you have a relevant use case.
You can also now develop your AWS Lambda functions in C# using the .NET Core 1.0 runtime.
AWS Opworks For Chef Automate
AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate provides a fully managed Chef server and suite of automation tools that give you workflow automation for continuous deployment, automated testing for compliance and security, and a user interface that gives you visibility into your nodes and their status. The Chef server gives you full stack automation by handling operational tasks such as software and operating system configurations, package installations, database setups, and more.
Visit the website here to find out more and get started.
AWS X-Ray
AWS X-Ray helps developers analyze and debug production, distributed applications, such as those built using a microservices architecture. With X-Ray, you can understand how your application and its underlying services are performing to identify and troubleshoot the root cause of performance issues and errors.
You can find out more and signup for the preview here.
AWS Step Functions
AWS Step Functions to allow you to coordinate the components of your application as series of steps in a visual workflow. You create state machines in the Step Functions Console to specify and execute the steps of your application at scale.
Read the full blog post here or get started through the AWS console here.
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