AWS re:Invent 2022 roundup: Data management, AI, compute take center stage

As businesses grapple with growing volumes of data collected and generated by a myriad of cloud-based applications, Amazon Web Services (AWS) unveiled a wide range of new applications and product enhancements this week at its annual re:Invent conference that are geared to optimize data analytics and governance, and bolster the computing infrastructure to do so. Over the last few days, the company launched new services and features across its storage, compute, analytics, machine learning, databases, and security services, and made its first foray into supply chain management. Here is a roundup of the major announcements, with links to articles containing more details about the updates. A major theme at re:Invent 2022 was Amazon's efforts to ease data management and analytics for enterprises, as the company announced a dozen updates to data services. The updates included the launch of two new capabilities--Amazon Aurora zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift and Amazon Redshift integration for Apache Spark--that it claims will make the extract, transform, load (ETL) process obsolete.