Martin Beeby, principal developer advocate, AWS, made the case for economic and environmental benefits of the company's serverless computing technologies. ""You should really start considering serverless it can genuinely save you money and help us save the planet," said Beeby.

Amazon AWS's Martin Beeby, principal developer advocate, announced during a keynote presentation at the New York City AWS Summit a new way to run workloads globally, AWS Cloud WAN, the "WAN" standing for wide-area-network. 

"It's one console to manage everything," said Beeby. Using Cloud WAN allows a company to run programs as a combination of AWS availability zones, including AWS "local zones" and AWS "Outposts," deployments that are inside of companies' own data centers, noted Beeby, along with numerous other AWS resources such as edge computing.

The one-day New York Summit, which took place at Jacob Javitz Convention Center in Midtown Manhattan, was the second U.S.-based Summit event to be held live following an event in San Francisco. Beeby was filling in for Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, who had been scheduled to give the keynote but was not able to present because he was under the weather. "Think of me as the availability zone for Werner Vogels," quipped Beeby.

Cloud WAN is presented as a way to easily set up and manage multiple parts of an AWS-based network around the world, including AWS "virtual private clouds," or VPCs, along with customers' own on-premise private cloud offerings. More details are availablein a blog post by AWS principal developer advocate S