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This post walks you through all of the new analytics service launches. You’ll find links to blog posts, announcements, session recordings, and press releases so you can dive deeper into those launches.
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Press releases
Press release – AWS Announces Five New Database and Analytics Capabilities
This press release covers five new database and analytics capabilities that make it faster and easier for you to manage and analyze data at petabyte scale—Amazon DocumentDB Elastic Clusters, Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, Amazon Athena for Apache Spark, AWS Glue Data Quality, and Amazon Redshift Multi-AZ.
Press release – AWS Announced Five New Capabilities for Amazon QuickSight
This press release covers five new capabilities for Amazon QuickSight, the most popular serverless BI service built for the cloud. These new capabilities will help customers streamline business intelligence operations.
Press release – AWS Announced Two New Capabilities to Move Toward a Zero-ETL Future on AWS
This press release covers two new integrations that make it easier for customers to connect and analyze data across data stores without having to move data between services.
Press release – AWS Announced Amazon DataZone
Amazon DataZone makes it faster and easier for customers to catalog, discover, share, and govern data stored across AWS, on premises, and on third-party sources. To learn more about Amazon DataZone, please visit the product page or watch the re:Invent session recording.
Keynotes and leadership sessions
Adam Selipsky, Chief Executive Officer of Amazon Web Services, highlighted innovations in data, infrastructure, and more that are helping customers achieve their goals faster, take advantage of untapped potential, and create a better future with AWS. The analytics new launches Adam mentioned include Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, Amazon DataZone, and Amazon Aurora zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift.
Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President of AWS Data and Machine Learning, revealed the latest AWS innovations that can help you transform your company’s data into meaningful insights and actions for your business. In this keynote, Swami launched Amazon Athena for Apache Spark, Amazon Redshift integration for Apache Spark, Amazon Redshift Multi-AZ, AWS Glue Data Quality, and other new AWS capabilities.
G2 Krishnamoorthy, VP of AWS Analytics, covered the latest service innovations around data and also highlighted customer successes with AWS analytics. New analytics capabilities he covered include AWS Glue for Ray, Amazon Redshift Streaming Ingestion, Amazon Aurora zero-ETL to Amazon Redshift, Amazon Redshift integration for Apache Spark, Amazon DataZone, Amazon Athena for Apache Spark, Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, Amazon QuickSight API, and more.
Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, Vice President of AWS Foundational Data Services, and Andy Warfield, AWS Distinguished Engineer, shared the latest AWS storage innovations and an inside look at how customers drive modern business on data lakes and with high-performance data. They also dived deep into technical and organizational strategies that protect with resilience, respond with agility, and fuel innovations with data-driven insights on AWS storage.
Amazon DataZone
To gain value from your data, it needs to be accessible by people and systems that need it for analytics. This session introduces you to Amazon DataZone, a new AWS business data catalog that allows you to unlock data across organizational boundaries with built-in governance.
Amazon Security Lake
Amazon Redshift
Watch the recording to learn about important new features of Amazon Redshift. Learn how Amazon Redshift reinvented data warehousing to help you analyze all your data across data lakes, data warehouses, and databases with the best price performance. In this session, Goldman Sachs shared their Amazon Redshift use case.
Amazon OpenSearch Service
Streaming services
AWS Glue
- Blog – Join the Preview – AWS Glue Data Quality
AWS Glue Data Quality can analyze your tables and recommend a set of rules automatically based on what it finds. - Announcement – Announcing AWS Glue for Ray (Preview)
Data engineers can use AWS Glue for Ray to process large datasets with Python and popular Python libraries. - Blog – New AWS Glue 4.0 – New and Updated Engines, More Data Formats, and More
This version of AWS Glue includes Python 3.10 and Apache Spark 3.3.0, plus native support for the Cloud Shuffle Storage Plugin for Apache Spark. It also includes Pandas support and more. - Announcement – Introducing AWS Glue Delivery
The new AWS Glue Delivery specialization validates AWS Partners with deep expertise and proven success in delivering AWS Glue for data integration, data pipeline, and data catalog use cases. - Announcement – AWS Glue for Apache Spark Native support for Data Lake Frameworks
AWS Glue for Apache Spark now supports three open-source data lake storage frameworks: Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg, and Linux Foundation Delta Lake. - Announcement – AWS Glue introduces custom visual transforms
AWS Glue now offers custom visual transforms, which let customers define, reuse, and share business-specific ETL logic among their teams.
Amazon Athena
- Blog – New — Amazon Athena for Apache Spark
With this feature, we can run Apache Spark workloads, use Jupyter Notebook as the interface to perform data processing on Athena, and programmatically interact with Spark applications using Athena APIs.
Amazon QuickSight
Amazon AppFlow
Thanks for reading! re:Invent is certainly not just about new launches. The Analytics and Business Intelligence tracks dived deep into each one of the analytics services through sessions (86 in total!), covering a wide range of topics and use cases.
Check out the YouTube playlist for session recordings.
About the author
Gwen Chen is Senior Product Marketing Manager for Amazon Redshift and re:Invent Analytics Track Lead. She believes in the power of communication, and likes data, analytics, and AI/ML.