Tasks for AWS 2.8

The Utoolity team is pleased to present Tasks for AWS 2.8 – this release adds new tasks to deploy and operate AWS Lambda functions and event source mappings, and can optionally tag Amazon ECS Tasks. You can now create/update/delete/invoke/entitle AWS Lambda functions, and create/update/delete AWS Lambda event source mappings.

Highlights

New tasks for AWS Lambda

You can now facilitate Amazon Web Service's new event-driven computing service AWS Lambda, which runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the compute resources for you - this is enabled by two new tasks:

• Create//Update/Delete/Invoke/Entitle AWS Lambda Functions
• Create/Update/Delete AWS Lambda Event Source Mappings

Optionally specify a tag when running/starting an ECS Task

This adds the new ECS Task startedBy parameter, which is an optional tag specified when a task is started:

For example if you automatically trigger a task to run a batch process job, you could apply a unique identifier for that job to your task with the startedBy parameter. You can then identify which tasks belong to that job by filtering the results of a ListTasks call with the startedBy value.

• See New tasks for the Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) for the related former release notes.

Support for Enhanced Health Reporting, version 2 platform configurations and multiple WAR files in AWS Elastic Beanstalk tasks

The available solution stacks have been updated to include the latest versions, see the resp. announcements:

• Introducing Enhanced Application Health Monitoring
• Announcing support for multiple WAR files and new M4 instances

Updated solution stacks are always usable manually as soon as they are made available by AWS - this simply updates the user interface to include those for convenient selection.

Support for Java and Go applications in AWS Elastic Beanstalk tasks

(As of release 2.8.2)

The available solution stacks have been updated to include the latest versions, see the resp. announcements:

• Announcing support for Java and Go applications

Updated solution stacks are always usable manually as soon as they are made available by AWS - this simply updates the user interface to include those for convenient selection.

Release notes

For more details about this release, please refer to the Tasks for AWS 2.8 Release Notes.