>Without spilling any beans I let him know that we were very aware of this use case and that we had some interesting solutions in the works. Other customers have also let us know that they want to customize their end user experience by making quick decisions out at the edge.
It was in the pipeline already I guess.
Of course not. But it still explains what this new feature does that AWS wasn't able to do previously.
Yes, the HN thread is prominent in the article.
Ah, OK: the answer is "no" (as the question did not lead to the feature), not "yes" ;P; and also "I am dumb" (FWIW, I actually got to this thread by searching for it after already knowing about @Edge, so I didn't even click the article link: I saw the @Edge stuff today in the ECS FAQ, searched for it on Google and saw it had been announced 15 minutes earlier, and then came to HN to read comments about it).