On: What would make AWS even better

[pid-1]

Long running lambdas would be sick for infrequent / low concurrency data pipelines.

My wet dream is "bidirectional IaC". Let me make changes using the GUI, commit to repo automatically.

[cbsmith → pid-1]

In most cases, I think you can do fine with just having a proper async interface to the data pipeline, where you trigger something, and then you respond to the trigger that it has completed.

[moltar → pid-1]

Take a look at former2 and cdk-dasm.