Lambda Extensions are a handy way to run ‘operational’ code around your lambda functions – such as monitoring and observability – without changing your core function code. And with this general release, your lambdas can return a response without waiting for the extensions to finish – which means, for example,  you can tell your users something’s gone wrong even faster before pushing the error to Sentry. (Not that our code has any bugs…)

Glue Studio is great for quickly building ETL jobs that move and transform data using a drag-and-drop editor. However, when you need more control, dropping down to the level of source code was previously a bit of a pain. Thankfully, with the new code editor, you can add custom code without having to download and modify the scripts.