AWS made a host of new services announcements at re:Invent 2022. AWS Chief Evangelist, Jeff Barr, summarized the most impactful announcements, but then they proceeded to spend more than 2,700 words highlighting their favorite announcements. AWS used to tout its 200+ services. However, at some point in the past two years, AWS realized that having so many services complicated customers’ IT decisions rather than simplifying them. AWS is now focusing on integration as an essential product feature. Amazon Aurora zero-ETL integration with Amazon R is a new feature. Amazon Security Lake, which automatically centralizes a company’s security data from cloud and on-premises sources into a data lake, is another new feature. Amazon CodeCatalyst is designed to improve software development and delivery and lead to greater convenience. Customers are often left to cobble together disparate services without tight integration in the way Microsoft might provide, for example. This is changing thanks to AWSs efforts to better integrate its own services and third-party data sources.
