re:Invent bonus edition

Handpicked updates from the world's biggest cloud event

In this special edition of Embrace Risk, I’m featuring some of the most popular updates from re:Invent. Hope you enjoy it!

• 🔥 A new hub for EDAs with explanations, talks, customer stories and getting started help (link)

• 🔥 Accelerate Your Lambda Functions with Lambda SnapStart (link)

• 🔥 Amazon RDS Optimized Reads and Optimized Writes (link)

• 🔥 Announcing AWS KMS External Key Store (link)

• 🔥 Announcing Amazon CodeCatalyst, a Unified Software Development Service - in Preview (announcement, service url)

• AWS Marketplace for Containers Now Supports Direct Deployment to Amazon EKS Clusters (link)

• Fully Managed Blue/Green Deployments in Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS (link)

• Introducing VPC Lattice (in Preview) – Simplify Networking for Service-to-Service Communication (link)

• Amazon OpenSearch Serverless – Run Search and Analytics Workloads without Managing Clusters (link)

• Announcing Amazon EFS Elastic Throughput (link)

• ENA Express: Improved Network Latency and Per-Flow Performance on EC2 (link)

• Amazon ECS Service Connect Enabling Easy Communication Between Microservices (link)

• Failover Controls for Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points (link)

• Announcing Amazon DocumentDB Elastic Clusters (link)

• Amazon CloudWatch Cross-Account Observability (link)

• AWS Config Rules Now Support Proactive Compliance (link)

• Visualize and create your serverless workloads with AWS Application Composer (link)

• Create Point-to-Point Integrations Between Event Producers and Consumers with Amazon EventBridge Pipes (link)

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