I didn't get to go to Las Vegas to the AWS re:Invent conference in December last year but I did manage to review all the announcements that came out and there were a lot!

A normal person just wouldn't go through the entire list so I have summarised my take on the key ones into a nice little list that encompasses Migration, Application Development (Modernize) and Cloud Management. 

Migrate

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AWS launches new program to drive migrations for end of support Windows Server applicationshttps://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/aws-launches-program-drive-migration-windows-server/

Application Development (Modernize)

Data & Analytics

TopicLink
Amazon Redshift introduces support for federated querying (preview)https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/amazon-redshift-federated-query-preview/?trk=ls_card
Amazon Redshift introduces RA3 nodes with managed storage enabling independent compute and storage scalinghttps://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/amazon-redshift-announces-ra3-nodes-managed-storage/?trk=ls_card
Announcing Amazon Redshift data lake export: share data in Apache Parquet formathttps://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/announcing-amazon-redshift-data-lake-export/?trk=ls_card

MicroServices & Containers

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AWS launches Fargate Spot, save up to 70% for fault tolerant applicationshttps://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/aws-launches-fargate-spot-save-up-to-70-for-fault-tolerant-applications/?trk=ls_card
Run Serverless Kubernetes Pods Using Amazon EKS and AWS Fargatehttps://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/run-serverless-kubernetes-pods-using-amazon-eks-and-aws-fargate/?trk=ls_card

Serverless

TopicLink
AWS Lambda announces Provisioned Concurrencyhttps://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/aws-lambda-announces-provisioned-concurrency/?trk=ls_card

Machine Learning

TopicLink
Introducing Amazon SageMaker Studio – the first integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learninghttps://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/introducing-amazon-sagemaker-studio-the-first-integrated-development-environment-ide-for-machine-learning/?trk=ls_card
Introducing the new Amazon SageMaker Notebook Experience – Now in Previewhttps://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/introducing-the-new-amazon-sagemaker-notebook-experience-now-in-preview/?trk=ls_card
Organize, track, and compare your machine learning training experiments with Amazon SageMaker Experimentshttps://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/introducing-amazon-sagemaker-experiments-organize-track-and-compare-your-machine-learning-training-experiments-on-amazon-sagemaker/?trk=ls_card

General Development

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Introducing The Amazon Builders’ Libraryhttps://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/introducing-amazon-builders-library/?trk=ls_card
AWS announces Amazon CodeGuru for automated code reviews and application performance recommendationshttps://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/aws-announces-amazon-codeguru-for-automated-code-reviews-and-application-performance-recommendations/?trk=ls_card
Amazon API Gateway Offers Faster, Cheaper, Simpler APIs Using HTTP APIs (Preview)https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/amazon-api-gateway-offers-faster-cheaper-simpler-apis-using-http-apis-preview/?trk=ls_card

Manage

Hybrid

TopicLink
Announcing General Availability of AWS Outpostshttps://aws.amazon.com/new/reinvent/?awsf.announcements-categories=category-type%23compute&awsm.page-cards-featured=2
Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, and AWS App Mesh now support AWS Outpostshttps://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/amazon-ecs-amazon-eks-aws-app-mesh-now-support-aws-outposts/?trk=ls_card
Amazon RDS on Outposts is available in previewhttps://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/amazon-rds-on-outposts-available-in-preview/?trk=ls_card

General

TopicLink
Introducing AWS Compute Optimizerhttps://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/introducing-aws-compute-optimizer/?trk=ls_card
Introducing EC2 Image Builderhttps://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/introducing-ec2-image-builder/


All Announcements

If you so inclined, the full list can be viewed here - > https://aws.amazon.com/new/reinvent/

Tony
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Tony is a cloud, data and analytics professional with over 24 years experience and deep expertise in cloud technologies (holding expert certifications in AWS, Azure and GCP).

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