AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any datacenter, co-location space, or on-premises facility for a truly consistent hybrid experience. The rapid adoption of hybrid IT has driven the need for a more consistent and standardized availability of cloud resources and operations so IT teams can rapidly deliver services deployed either on the public cloud or on-premises.

Ask most people what they consider to be the core value of the AWS cloud, and they’ll probably include things like AWS’ scalability and flexibility. While this refers to their public cloud offerings, the same can be said about AWS Outposts—and maybe even more so.

AWS released Lambda Extensions just over a month ago, and we explained what they are and why they matter. Today, AWS has announced AWS Lambda Logs API, a way for extensions to subscribe to and process Lambda logs in real-time.

A few years ago, we realized that spending in our AWS product test environment had jumped significantly from one month to the next. We drilled down into the issue and traced it to some RDS database instances that had been spun up to test new product features. No one realized that these expensive instances were left running after the tests were complete, and subsequently racking up charges for several months.