X-Ray

Serverless computing is one of AWS' main areas of development, Vogels told attendees.

Amazon is focused on removing "all this notion of servers," Vogels said, so users "no longer need to think about servers, or managing any types of instances."

AWS leaders see a game-changing shift away from provisioning virtual machine instances, to just running code that automatically scales, he said. AWS has been building up a set of tools in that category since the very beginning, with the Lambda service a centerpiece, offering serverless compute functions that can speed development time and reduce costs.

At Summit, Vogels announced the GA release for X-Ray, a tool for tracing and debugging Lambda functions across a complex deployment.