With all these improvements in the various bits of AWS, I keep wondering why Cloudfront is not getting a much-requested feature: gzip compression for files that can be when the browser accepts gzip. I know I'm not the only one asking/waiting for this, and the current solutions are very convoluted.

Another feature that would be nice for Cloudfront is being able to back it with a non-s3 resource.

These are common requests, but I will pass them along to the team anyway to guide our prioritization process.

Is there a defacto means for communicating these kinds of requests? And if not, I think a request for a feature like Dropbox's Votebox is in order -- https://www.dropbox.com/votebox.

We don't have a formalized suggestion mechanism. You can email them to me (jbarr@amazon.com), post them in the AWS Forums, write your own blog post, or you can come work at Amazon (http://aws.amazon.com/jobs) and implement it yourself!

Wow, finally!

Tagging was long overdue.

I hope the sigh of relief going through the ranks of AWS users will be heard at Amazon HQ and motivates them to no longer hold back such trivial yet essential features for years. Automating EC2 infrastructure has just become so much easier. No more futzing with and abusing of security groups - Thank you!

Good stuff, I think tagging was long overdue. Hopfully they will release IAM (http://aws.amazon.com/iam) to the public soon as well.

You can use the IAM command line and APIs right now.

Sorry, I meant the IAM Management Console. Any chance this will be released soon?

I don't know the status of that :-)

Idempotency and tagging are the big ones for me. Makes automating instance operations easier.