SO much has shipped so far during this re:Invent season, and there's so much still to come -- I wanted to do a quick write up of some of my favorites from the pre:Invent season and the keynote this morning.
$ aws login
My estimate is this saves ~15 mins of work to get logged in using the AWS CLI. It will bring you to the AWS sign in page in the browse, give you temporary credentials, and that's it 🚀.
AWS Lambda Durable Functions
Write multi-step workflows in Python or TypeScript code. Enable a durable function with withDurableExecution then use async/await to "step" through tasks.
Frontier Agents
These pre-built agents are autonomous and work for long running tasks. There's the Kiro autonomous agent for writing code, the AWS DevOps Agent for resolving incidents, and then (my favorite) the Security Agent which helps with app design, code reviews, and pen testing.
AWS Databases in Vercel
An integration between Vercel and AWS Aurora PostgreSQL, DSQL, and DynamoDB. You can provision and connect your databases from the Vercel dashboard, or even create them with V0 🤯!
Amazon Nova Act
Build in-browser UI automations! Automate the boring web tasks you don't want to do anymore (like copying and pasting stuff between tabs).
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Quality Evals and Policy Controls
Define boundaries for your agent's actions, and monitor the quality of your agents! If you haven't tried AgentCore, I'd try out this tutorial to ship a Strands Agent with it!
Property-Based Testing in Kiro
Make sure your code actually matches the spec you built. I'd highly recommend reading the full blog post for this one, it's really interesting.
AWS Lambda Managed Instances
You can now choose an Amazon EC2 instance type for your Lambda function to run on!
AWS Transform Custom
Write custom modernization agents for your codebase. This would have saved me months of boring Angular -> React migrations back in the day!
I'm excited to hear what your favorites are and to see everyone trying these features out! Also, a huge shoutout to all the teams who've been working behind the scenes to ship these incredible updates. Stay tuned for even more announcements this week!
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