As Amazon Web Services starts the new year, still comfortably ensconced as the world’s largest cloud provider, its customers await some of the new products and services that it preannounced at December’s virtual AWS re:Invent 2020 conference as coming this year.
Those forthcoming solutions include the AWS Trainium custom machine learning (ML) chip, new on-premises deployment options for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon ECS), and the open source project for the new Babelfish for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, which allows Microsoft SQL Server customers to move to less expensive PostgreSQL databases.
AWS also promised new smaller form factors of its AWS Outposts hybrid cloud offering and a dozen new U.S. metro locations for AWS Local Zones, extensions of AWS cloud regions where customers can run their latency-sensitive applications using AWS services.
Here’s a look at those new products and services scheduled to launch in 2021 and others to watch as the year unfolds.
