Exciting re:Invent 2021 Launches and Announcements

AWS re:Invent is always chock full of new announcements and product launches. It's hard to keep track of them all, but here are a few that I think are exciting and will offer a direct impact to cost efficiency or workload optimization for our customers.

Devops Guru for RDS: Troubleshooting database performance issues can be a challenge no matter what db engine you use, but now developers can harness the power of ML to help determine the root cause of performance issues in Amazon Aurora, saving them countless hours of investigation work and helping get to a remediation faster.

Karpenter - Open-Source High-Performance Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler: When your containerized applications have highly dynamic and unpredictable load patterns, a common challenge is matching autoscaling services like EC2 autoscaling groups to EKS cluster capacity needs when container scaling needs are sudden. This often leads to over-provisioning of compute resources available to clusters in anticipation of sudden demand spikes. Karpenter will help keep EKS cluster workloads scaled down properly when demand is low, and rapidly scaled up when demand is high.

Amazon VPC IP Address Manager: IP address management in complex VPC deployments can tough to manage. Excel remained my tool of choice for tracking and documenting complex IP schemas. I'm really looking forward to testing this one out.

S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval Storage Class: A common concern of many of our customers using S3 Glacier for their backup repositories was the cost and time associated with archive file retrieval. This Glacier storage class is purpose built for archival workloads that must be available in the rare instance that a restore is necessary.

Were you at re:Invent this year, either in person or virtually? Share with us your favorite product and service announcements.