AWS Digest – 2021-01-03

Long time since the last AWS Update, there were many things going on, but not enough that catch my eyes for a full post until this week.

AWS Lambda:

There is a lot going on here:

• Python 3.9 is now available
• Lambda Extensions: This looks awesome, there now the possibility to provide a docker image to run lambda in. And a lot of other features, really, I’ll need to make a full feature review on it. I planned to work on it at the end of the Password Store project.
• AWS Lambda can now be triggered by a SQS Queue from a different account: this is really interesting because it allows you to have a Queue from an application you own in account A and have your lambda worker in account B, with no need of using a SNS topic in the middle. For data processing this is really nice as it will help to split your applications in small bits and maintaining clean AWS accounts.

Multi Accounts Managements:

In the same topic, you can now manage you accounts contact information updates with AWS CLI or SDK. This mean that you can now easily setup a script to update information in all your accounts, that really interesting for big structures with multiple accounts.

Elasticsearch:

Open Search Service is now available, it’s fork of Apache Elasticsearch manage by the community. This will be the new goto even if Apache ElasticSearch will still be available up to version 7.10