This week Simon takes you through a selection of more recent Service updates as well as a black belt tip!

Shownotes:

Attach IAM Role to Running EC2 Instance: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/new-attach-an-aws-iam-role-to-an-existing-amazon-ec2-instance-by-using-the-aws-cli/

Amazon EBS Elastic Volumes: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ebs-update-new-elastic-volumes-change-everything/

Device Farm Flexible Timeouts: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/02/run-longer-tests-and-control-test-durations-with-aws-device-farm/

AWS CodeCommit viewing commit details and graph: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/codecommit/latest/userguide/how-to-view-commit-details.html

IPv6 Regional Updates: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-ipv6-update-global-support-spanning-15-regions-multiple-aws-services/

Amazon ECS Placement Policies: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/introducing-amazon-ecs-task-placement-policies/

Amazon ECS Container Instance Draining: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/container-instance-draining.html

Automate Container Instance Draining: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/how-to-automate-container-instance-draining-in-amazon-ecs/