A service that allows for arbitrary scheduling of future events has been at the top of my wish list for AWS services for a long time. The fact this doesn't jus

A service that allows for arbitrary scheduling of future events has been at the top of my wish list for AWS services for a long time. The fact this doesn't just queue up events and instead is capable of calling any of the services supported by the AWS SDK with arbitrary templates and execution roles was a very smart choice. And at $1/million invocations (no charge for CRUD) and a very generous 14 million invocation free tier I can't think of many ways to implement this cheaper except at extreme scale. Also, them allowing you to set a timezone for a schedule shows a lot of insight from the team. Whilst UTC seems like the only thing you'd need to support from a tool used mostly be developers/devops, if you're setting schedules that interact with the real-world, having them be aware of daylight savings is extremely useful.