New AWS tools give developers high-powered instances, better container support and more

Developing apps and services to leverage the cloud is the new normal, Amazon Chief Technical Officer Werner Vogels told an audience at the company's Re:Invent conference in Las Vegas Thursday.To that end, Amazon announced a whole slew of new features for its cloud that should help developers take advantage of it in one form or another. AWS Lambda, which allows developers to just run blocks of code when necessary without worrying about provisioning resources, received a bunch of updates, inc