Top Links from Issue #275

This issue was published on April 16, 2024

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Most Popular Links

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Amazon CloudFront now supports Origin Access Control (OAC) for Lambda function URL origins
Starting today, customers can protect their AWS Lambda URL origins by using CloudFront Origin Access Control (OAC) to only allow access from designated CloudFront distributions.

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Why Cloudflare is the Best Alternative to Vercel in 2024 by Pedro Rocha
Recently we have seen a lot of fuss around the so-called serverless horror stories, or the infinite scale of serverless computing that can lead to a huge bill at the end of the month.

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Amplified exposure: How AWS flaws made Amplify IAM roles vulnerable to takeover
One of our core objectives is to explore, identify, and document new methods to attack cloud resources. On occasion, these efforts uncover vulnerabilities in those cloud services, and we work with cloud service providers to ensure their remediation.

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Processing Background Jobs on AWS: Lambda vs ECS vs ECS Fargate by mkdev
By definition, background jobs are asynchronous and invisible to your users. As such, background workers — the software that processes the jobs — have completely different requirements in terms of availability and scalability.

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Unleashing Resilience: A Practical Guide to Chaos Engineering in Serverless Architectures by koby aharon
In this post, we will explore chaos engineering practices and provide an example code for running a chaos experiment within a serverless architecture deployed in AWS. Additionally, we will leverage AWS FIS (Fault Injection Service) for enhanced experimentation.

Honorable Mentions

There are so many great blog posts, tutorials, use cases, and more shared each week by the #serverless community, that picking just a few to feature is really hard. So here are some other honorable mentions chosen by our readers.

How to trigger events every 30 seconds in AWS by Allen Helton
Software engineering is one of those industries that likes to periodically humble you. You think you know exactly how to build something, come up with a plan and an estimate, sit down to start writing some code, and BOOM. It does not at all work like you thought it did.

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About the Author

Jeremy is the CEO and Founder of Ampt and an AWS Serverless Hero that has a soft spot for helping people solve problems using serverless. He frequently consults with companies and developers transitioning away from the traditional “server-full” approach. You can find him ranting about serverless on Twitter, in several forums and Slack groups, hosting the Serverless Chats podcast, and at conferences around the world.

 

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