Key Highlights of AWS re:Invent 2021

What To Expect From AWS reInvent 2021

1. Amazon WorkSpaces introduces Amazon WorkSpaces Web

Amazon WorkSpaces Web makes it easy for customers to safely provide their employees with access to internal websites and SaaS web applications without the administrative burden of appliances or specialized client software. WorkSpaces Web provides simple policy tools custom-built for user interactions while offloading common tasks like capacity management, scaling, and maintaining browser images. With WorkSpaces Web, corporate data never resides on remote devices. Websites are rendered in an isolated container in AWS, and pixel streamed to the user. The isolated browsing session provides an effective barrier against attacks packaged in the web content and avoids potentially compromised end-user devices from ever connecting with internal servers. Also, every session launches a fresh, always up-to-date, non-persistent web browser.

2. Announcing Amazon Redshift Serverless (Preview)

Amazon Redshift now provides a Serverless option (preview) to run and scale analytics without having to provision and manage data warehouse clusters. With Amazon Redshift Serverless, all users including data analysts, developers, and data scientists can now use Amazon Redshift to get insights from data within seconds. Amazon Redshift Serverless automatically provisions and intelligently scales data warehouse capacity to deliver the best-in-class performance for all your analytics.

3. Introducing Amazon FSx for OpenZFS

Amazon FSx for OpenZFS empowers you to launch, run, and scale fully managed file systems on AWS that replace the ZFS or other Linux-based file servers you run on-premises while helping to provide better agility and reduced costs. This new addition lets you use a popular file system without having to deal with hardware provisioning, software configuration, patching, backups, and the like. You can create a file system in minutes and begin to enjoy the benefits of OpenZFS right away viz. transparent compression, continuous integrity verification, snapshots, and copy-on-write. Even further, you get all of these benefits without having to develop the specialized expertise that has traditionally been required to set up and administer OpenZFS.

4. Amazon FSx for Lustre now supports linking multiple Amazon S3 buckets to a file system

Amazon FSx for Lustre is a service that provides cost-effective, high-performance, scalable file systems for compute workloads, making it more easier to process data residing in Amazon S3 by enabling an FSx for Lustre file system to be linked to multiple S3 buckets. Integrated with Amazon S3, FSx for Lustre enables you to easily to process S3 datasets with a high-performance file system. With today’s launch, you can link multiple S3 buckets or prefixes to a file system and your S3 datasets appear as files and directories in a single unified file system namespace.

5. Amazon FSx for Lustre now supports automatically exporting file updates to Amazon S3

Amazon FSx for Lustre is a service that provides cost-effective, high-performance, scalable file systems for compute workloads, making it much easier to process data residing in Amazon S3 by enabling your S3 bucket’s contents to be updated automatically as data is updated in an FSx for Lustre file system. Integrated with Amazon S3, FSx for Lustre empowers you to easily process S3 datasets with a high-performance file system. With today’s launch, FSx for Lustre can also automatically update the contents of the linked S3 bucket as files are added to, changed in, or deleted from the file system.

6. Introducing AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces – Preview

AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces is the new starting point for incremental app refactor that makes it very easy to manage the refactor process while operating in production. Using Refactor Spaces, customers focus on the refactor of their applications, and not the creation and management of the underlying infrastructure that makes refactoring possible. This new Migration Hub feature minimizes the business risk of evolving applications into microservices or extending existing applications with new features written in microservices.

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