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2AWS Lambda Provides Event-Driven Compute
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels explained that the new Lambda service is an event-driven technology that doesn’t require users to first provision any cloud infrastructure. With Lambda, an event, such as an image upload, can trigger the creation of a thumbnail image.
3Containers Come to the Amazon Cloud
The new Amazon EC2 Container Service is a new management service for the use and deployment of Docker containers. With the new service, container deployment can be scheduled and placed based on availability and resource requirements.
4AWS CodeDeploy Improves Application Lifecycle Management
The new AWS CodeDeploy service is one of three new application lifecycle management tools announced at re:Invent. As its name implies, CodeDeploy is a deployment service for code delivery to Amazon cloud instances.
5CodePipeline: A Continuous Build and Test Service
The CodePipeline service is an automated continuous build and test service for the delivery of new code.
6AWS Brings Git to the Cloud With CodeCommit
At the core of all development efforts is the use of a source code version control service. Amazon is now putting version control into its cloud with CodeCommit, providing developers with hosted private Git repositories. Git is a popular open-source version control system originally developed by Linux creator Linus Torvalds.
7Amazon Aurora: A New MySQL-Compatible Database
8Key Management Service Provides Encryption Control
The AWS Key Management Service (KMS) provides cloud administrators with encryption and key management capabilities.
9AWS Config: A New Auditing Service
10Putting All Approved AWS Services in a Catalog
The AWS Service Catalog is a new capability, which will allow a cloud administrator to create an approved listing of cloud services for use by an enterprise’s employees.