I’ll have some holidays next week, so after a few time for resting, I should be able to give more time to my personal projects and provide more interesting updates. Here are the new AWS updates that catch my eyes:
AWS Toolkit
More than 200 new resources manageable using AWS Toolkit. If you don’t know AWS Toolkit is an extension available in many IDE that allows interact with AWS Resources, such as connecting to an RDS instance, watching logs, updating lambda code/configuration, etc…
It’s a good way to check the status of your resources, when working in a team where each developer have their own AWS Account for testing, it can be really helpful to see where deployments fails, checking logs within the IDE to track down bugs.
Not game changing, but always appreciated.
EC2 and Capacity balancing
It’s now possible to terminate instance automatically after they have been removed from the load balancing. Before they needed to be manually terminated or wait until EC2 terminate it.
The instance will be terminated following the usual termination so no need to create a specific termination logic.
Athena Cost details in executions plans
Now when using EXPLAIN Statement in Athena will now return a detailed breakdown of CPU usage and numbers of rows processed.
As Athena is quite costly, it’s a feature that will be really helpful for cost managements and query optimizations.
AWS Lambda Cross-Account container images
This one is really nice, you can now create your AWS Lambda extension images in one central account and use then in external accounts, less storage used and faster deployment.
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