AWS re:Invent 2022 Keynote by Werner Vogels

Here I have captured key highlights from ~2 hours of AWS re:Invent 2022 Keynote by Dr. Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO.

New AWS services announced are preceded by New & bold font

Keynote by Dr. Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO

• Key message: Nature is Asynchronous, World is event-driven & hence our systems should be as well! 
  • S3 Design Principles (based on Distributed systems): Decentralization, Asynchrony, Local responsibility, Decompose into small well-understood building blocks, Autonomy, Controlled concurrency, Failure tolerance, Controlled parallelism, Symmetry, Simplicity 
  • Asynchrony leads to loosely coupled systems 
  • Benefits of loosely coupled systems: Fewer dependencies, Failure isolation, Evolvable architecture 
  • Evolvable architecture:  S3 when launched had 8 microservices & now it has 253+ svcs! 
  • Amazon.com architecture: Monolith -> SOA -> MSA -> Shared services (read Amazon’s Distributed computing manifesto,1998 from Werner’s blog) 
• New AWS Step Functions Distributed Map: serverless Map & Reduce using Lambda functions 
• Event Bridge supports all 3 Event driven patterns: 
  • Point to Point using Queue 
  • Publish / Subscribe using Broker 
  • Event Streaming using Broker 
• Readme.com to create docs for APIs 
• New AWS Application Composer: Visually build & design Serverless Apps quickly 
• Spider in the Web  (where Spider is central thing)-> EventBridge: 
  • EventBridge does Routing, Coordination & Scheudling 
  • New Amazon EventBridge Pipes: Connects event producers & consumers in seconds (i.e. Stich AWS services together like Unix Pipes) 
• Design patterns used in DynamoDB Global tables that can be used in any global app: 
  • Change Data Capture 
  • Asynchronous Coupling 
  • Self healing replicator 
• Check out Amazon Builders Library for design patterns 
• New Amazon Code Catalyst:
  • A unified software development service that makes it faster to build & deliver in AWS (it has all the tools you need to go from idea to production)
  • It’s basic concept is of blueprint (like SPA application)
  • It let’s you easily create CI/CD pipelines, Development environments (to easily switch between codebases in 1 click)
  • CodeCatalyst service seems similar to Azure DevOps
• Gaming: 
  • Unreal Engine 
  • AWS Ambit Scenario Designer 
• Experiment, Measure, Learn! 
• New AWS SimSpace Weaver: Runs massive spatial simulation 

References

• Watch now on YouTube: Keynote by Werner Vogels

• Explore: AWS re:Invent 2022