Announcements from Werner Vogels Keynote at re:Invent 2021

Eyal Estrin ☁️
3 min readDec 2, 2021

Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances (currently in preview)

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/use-amazon-ec2-m1-mac-instances-to-build-test-macos-ios-ipados-tvos-and-watchos-apps/

Latency between AWS main regions:

30 new AWS Local Zones will be available starting 2022

Core networking and delivery services:

AWS Cloud WAN (currently in preview)

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/introducing-aws-cloud-wan-preview/

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/introducing-aws-cloud-wan/

AWS Amplify Studio (currently in preview)

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mobile/aws-amplify-studio-figma-to-fullstack-react-app-with-minimal-programming/

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/aws-amplify-studio/

Best practices for building APIs:

1. APIs are forever

2. Never break backward compatibility

3. Work backward from customer use cases

4. Create APIs with explicit and well-documented failure modes

5. Create APIs that are self-describing and have a clear, specific purpose

6. Avoid leaking implementation details at all costs

AWS SDKs for Swift, Kotlin and Rust (currently in preview)

AWS SDK for Rust (Developer Preview)

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/aws-sdk-rust-developer-preview/

AWS SDK for Kotlin (Developer Preview)

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/aws-sdk-kotlin-developer-preview/

AWS SDK for Swift (Developer Preview)

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/aws-sdk-swift-developer-preview/

AWS Cloud Development Kit v2

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/aws-cloud-development-kit-cdk-generally-available/

Construct Hub

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-general-availability-of-construct-hub-and-aws-cloud-development-kit-version-2/

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/aws-construct-hub-availability/

AWS Shared sustainability model

AWS Well-Architected Sustainability Pillar

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/new-sustainability-pillar-aws-well-architected-framework/

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/sustainability-pillar-well-architected-framework/

AWS re:Post

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/aws-repost-community-question-answer-service/

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-repost-a-reimagined-qa-experience-for-the-aws-community/

Development advices:

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Eyal Estrin ☁️

Author | Cloud Security Architect | AWS Community Builder | Public columnist | CISSP | CCSP | CISM | CDPSE | CISA | CCSK | https://linktr.ee/eyalestrin