After successfully completing week 1 and 2 of AWS re:Invent 2020, the company kicked off the final week with a host of infrastructure, observability, and IoT launches. Let’s look at the major announcements from the third and final week of the event.
The three-week AWS re:Invent 2020 entered its final week with a slew of launches and keynotes. This week, the cloud giant focused on infrastructure management, cloud observability, and internet of things (IoT) services product and feature launches. From the addition of new features to AWS System Manager to new launches in AWS IoT services, here are the biggest announcements from the third week of the event.
1. AWS Announced New Capabilities to AWS Systems ManagerÂ
This week, AWS added new features to its AWS System Manager that provides customers visibility and control of their infrastructure on AWS.
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Fleet Manager
AWS announced Fleet Manager, a new feature that focuses on monitoring remote servers instead of applications. The new feature will enable system admins to monitor fleets of managed instances that run on AWS and on-premises servers from a single unified console. It is an operating system (OS) agnostic — it allows customers to perform common OS operations on Windows, Linux, and macOS servers through the Systems Manager console.Â
It is available in all AWS regions.Â
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Change Manager
AWS unveiled Change Manager, a new change management feature to simplify operational changes to application configuration and infrastructure on AWS and on-premises. Change Manager is also integrated with AWS Organizations and AWS Single Sign-On, which helps customers manage and monitor changes from a single admin account.
The new feature is available in all AWS Regions where Systems Manager is offered (excluding the AWS GovCloud (U.S.) Regions and AWS China Regions).
2. AWS Launched Amazon Managed Service for Grafana (in Preview)
AWS announced Amazon Managed Service for Grafana (AMG), a fully managed, interactive data visualization service developed in a partnership with Grafana Labs. The service will enable customers to analyze, monitor, and visualize operational metrics, logs, and traces across multiple data sources.
Marcia Villalba, a senior developer advocate for AWS, saidOpens a new window , “Many of our customers love Grafana, but don’t want the burden of self-hosting and managing it. AMG manages the provisioning, setup, scaling, version upgrades, and security patching of Grafana, eliminating the need for customers to do it themselves. AMG automatically scales to support thousands of users with high availability.â€
The service is in preview mode and is available in the U.S. and Europe.
3. AWS Released Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus
AWS launched the preview of Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP), a Prometheus-compatible monitoring service to monitor containerized applications on AWS and on-premises. It is integrated with AWS security services, Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS, and AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry.
It is available in the U.S. and Europe.
4. AWS Introduced Amazon Location Service
The company announced the preview of the Amazon Location service, which lets developers securely add location-based features to their web and mobile applications. The service gives access to location-based features, such as maps, points of interest, geocoding, routing, geofences, and tracking from multiple providers on a pay-as-you-go basis.
It is available in the U.S., Europe, and the Asia Pacific regions.
5. AWS Unveiled Fault Injection Simulator
The cloud giant released a fully managed chaos engineering service called Fault Injection Simulator for teams to discover application weaknesses. The service will help developers understand application behaviors by injecting failures in a controlled chaos environment and improve application performance, resiliency, and observability.
The feature will be generally available in 2021.
6. AWS IoT Analytics Supports Apache Parquet Format
The AWS IoT analytics service operationalizes data analysis on petabytes of unstructured IoT data. The service now supports Apache Parquet storage format to store a large volume of processed IoT data in AWS IoT analytics data stores. Apache Parquet consumes less storage and queries a large volume of data quickly.
7. AWS IoT Announces Fleet Hub for AWS IoT Device Management
The new Fleet Hub for AWS IoT device management lets customers develop web applications to visualize, interact, and monitor their device fleets connected to AWS IoT. Fleet Hub is integrated with other AWS IoT device management features and services for users to interact with devices easily.
It is in preview mode and available in the U.S region.
8. AWS Unveiled AWS IoT Core for LoRaWANÂ
The AWS IoT core for low-power long-range wide area network (LoRaWAN) is a fully managed service for IoT core customers to connect and manage LoRaWAN-compliant wireless devices with AWS cloud. With AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN, customers can eliminate the need to manage a LoRaWAN network server (LNS) and quickly connect to LoRaWAN device fleets at scale.
It is generally available in the U.S. and Europe.
9. AWS Launched AWS IoT Core Device Advisor
The company announced the preview of AWS IoT Core Device Advisor, a fully managed cloud-based test feature for validating IoT devices. The new feature enables developers to connect their IoT devices to an IoT Device Advisor to check if their device is reliable and securely interoperable with AWS IoT Core. Once the device is ready for deployment, Device Advisor will provide a qualification report for device inclusion in the AWS Partner Device Catalog.
10. AWS Introduced AWS IoT EduKit
The new AWS IoT EduKit will provide students, developers, and professionals hands-on experience in building end-to-end IoT applications. The EduKit includes a reference hardware kit, software frameworks, guidelines, and example code.Â
It is available on Amazon.com and M5Stack store for $42.
11. AWS Announced the General Availability of AWS Cost Anomaly Detection Â
The cloud giant announced the general availability of AWS cost anomaly detection service to monitor customers’ spending patterns for all AWS services and provide root cause analysis for better cost control. The free service uses a multi-layered machine learning model to learn historic spend patterns to detect one-time cost spikes and continuous cost increases. It is a part of the AWS Cost Management suite and is integrated with AWS Cost Explorer for customers to visualize and analyze their cost patterns and usage as needed. Â
12. AWS Launched CloudShell
The company launched AWS CloudShell, a browser-based shell service for developers to access a Linux console. With this service, developers can securely manage, explore, and interact with their AWS resources from the command line. The pre-installed development tools will let users quickly run scripts with the AWS command-line interface (AWS CLI), experiment with AWS service APIs using the AWS SDKs, or use a range of other tools to be productive. It comes with 1 GB of persistent storage per AWS region.
AWS CloudShell is available in the U.S., Asia Pacific, and Europe.
The global pandemic was a wake-up call for companies to understand cloud technology’s role in business continuity. AWS played a crucial role in managing a remote workforce, call centers, supporting collaboration platforms, and even in COVID-19 vaccine development. The re:Invent 2020 virtual event highlighted the importance of building a reinvention culture along with a host of product launches to support its partners and customers in a volatile environment.
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