In this episode Simon discusses the importance of re-visiting Services to ensure you reduce the amount of undifferentiated heavy lifting you have in your architecture. Then he covers a raft of updates big and small. Shownotes: AWS and Ionic: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/05/mobile-web-and-hybrid-application-with-exported-mobile-hub-project-for-deploying-apps-and-mobile-backend/ Amazon QuickSight updates: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/visualize-big-data-with-amazon-quicksight-presto-and-apache-spark-on-amazon-emr/ AWS Schema Conversion Tool updates: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/05/aws-schema-conversion-tool-exports-from-sql-server-to-amazon-redshift/ AWS CloudFormation support for AWS WAF on ALB: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/05/cloudformation-support-for-aws-waf-on-alb/ AWS CloudTrail with S3 Data Events: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/05/aws-cloudtrail-adds-data-event-delivery-to-amazon-cloudwatch-logs/ Auto Scaling Resource-Level Permissions: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/05/introducing-auto-scaling-resource-level-permissions/ AWS CodeDeploy Updates: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/05/aws-codedeploy-adds-file-handling-support/ New Amazon S3 Console: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/05/announcing-the-availability-of-the-new-amazon-s3-console/ Amazon Athena adds API/CLI Support: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/05/amazon-athena-adds-api-cli-aws-sdk-support-and-audit-logging-with-aws-cloudtrail/ AWS X-Ray AWS Lambda Request Tracing GA: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/05/aws-x-ray-makes-aws-lambda-request-tracing-generally-available/