AWS San Francisco Summit – Summary of Launches and Announcements

Many of my colleagues are in San Francisco for today’s AWS Summit. Here’s a summary of what we announced from the main stage and in the breakout sessions:

New Services

• Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) – In-Memory Caching for Read-Intensive Workloads.
• Amazon Redshift Spectrum – Exabyte-Scale In-Place Queries of S3 Data.
• AWS CodeStar – Quickly Develop, Build, and Deploy Applications on AWS.

Newly Available

• EC2 F1 Instances with FPGAs.
• AWS X-Ray with Lambda Integration.
• Amazon Lex.
• Preview of Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility.

New Features

• Amazon Rekognition Update – Image Moderation.
• Amazon Polly – Speech Marks and Whispering.
• Public Preview of VPC Endpoints for DynamoDB.
• Conversational Bots in AWS Mobile Hub.
• SaaS Contracts for AWS Marketplace.
• Service-Linked IAM Roles – An Easier Way to Delegate Permissions.

— Jeff;