Re:Invent 2023: The Standout Announcements - Day 3

Anda's picks — Anda (Professional Solutions Architect AWS)

1. Announcing new Amazon EC2 R8g instances powered by AWS Graviton4 processors (Preview)

   • Blog post : Join the preview for new memory-optimized, AWS Graviton4-powered Amazon EC2 instances (R8g)

2. Boost generative AI application development with Agents for Amazon Bedrock

   • Blog post : Agents for Amazon Bedrock is now available with improved control of orchestration and visibility into reasoning

3. Announcing feature development capability of Amazon Q (Preview) in Amazon CodeCatalyst

   • Blog post : Improve developer productivity with generative-AI powered Amazon Q in Amazon CodeCatalyst (preview)

My top 3 announcements

1. AWS announces Amazon Q (Preview)

2. Announcing the Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class

3. Announcing Amazon Q expert capabilities for AWS (Preview)

Other announcements that will bring value to our architectures

Amazon Q

• Amazon Q offers help to optimize EC2 instance type selection (preview)
• Announcing feature development capability of Amazon Q (Preview) in Amazon CodeCatalyst
• Amazon Q in Amazon QuickSight simplifies data exploration with Generative BI capabilities (Preview)
• AWS Announces Amazon Q is available in preview on the AWS Console Mobile App
• AWS Chatbot now supports Amazon Q conversations in Microsoft Teams and Slack

Bedrock

• Safeguard generative AI applications with Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock (Preview)
• Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock is now generally available
• Boost generative AI application development with Agents for Amazon Bedrock

Storage

• Mountpoint for Amazon S3 now supports the Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class