AWS re:Invent 2021 Highlights from Las Vegas, NV, USA – Day 1 – Mon 29 Nov 2021

What an AWSome way to kick-start this event:

• Virtusa signed a Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with AWS to empower global organizations to unlock more value, efficiency, and profitability via cloud-based services.
• Virtusa won the “AWS 2021 Industry Solution Partner of the Year (NSI) – US Award”
• Met many colleagues (from Virtusa & AWS) and Partners after a long time, and some for the 1st time in-person
• Attended the AWS Analytics Leadership Roundtable, to interact with the AWS leadership and provide some perspective from our end as well
• Virtusa is a Launch Partner for the AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces (currently in Preview)
• Some Announcements from AWS (not a comprehensive list; just a shortlist of those that I found interesting, not in any particular order):

1. AWS Control Tower introduces Terraform account provisioning and customization
2. Amazon Athena ACID transactions, powered by Apache Iceberg (Preview)
3. AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS)
4. AWS Partner Paths: A New Way to Accelerate Engagement with AWS
5. AWS Marketplace for Containers Anywhere to Deploy Your Kubernetes Cluster in Any Environment
6. AWS Karpenter, a new open-source Kubernetes cluster autoscaling project
7. Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer Introduces Secrets Detector to Identify Hardcoded Secrets and Secure Them with AWS Secrets Manager
8. Amazon CloudWatch RUM for monitoring applications’ client-side performance
9. Amazon CloudWatch Evidently for feature experimentation and safer launches
10. The new Amazon Inspector for continual vulnerability management
11. Recover from accidental deletions of your snapshots using Recycle Bin
12. Amazon EBS Snapshots introduces a new tier, Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive, to reduce the cost of long-term retention of EBS Snapshots by up to 75%