(NOTE: This story was originally posted to CRN.com April 24.)

What's New And Cool From The Latest AWS Summit?

What's new with the world's largest public cloud? Whenever Amazon CTO Werner Vogels takes a stage, as he did to deliver the keynote at last week's AWS Summit in San Francisco, you know he's not going to resist revealing some cool features to the AWS community.

Vogels didn't disappoint, showing off a number of new, or newly available, capabilities of AWS cloud to partners and customers.

"Over past few years, cloud has become the new normal," said the CTO. "The default environment to build apps on."

With all the new features, partners feel like James Bond, Vogels said, with Amazon giving them "all these fancy tools," filling the role of Bond's innovative quartermaster Q.