Top Links from Issue #118

This issue was published on December 1, 2020

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Most Popular Links

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Jeremy’s Guide to a Very Serverless re:Invent 2020 by Jeremy Daly.
It’s AWS re:Invent time, and once again, developers, architects, business leaders, and everyone in between are faced with the daunting task of selecting from thousands of hours of re:Invent content.

14 Use Cases for AWS Lambda: How to Make the Most of It by TechMagic
Since 2014, the year when AWS Lambda — an event-driven computing platform — launched, it has become the most trending cloud strategy. By 2020, AWS Lambda has more than 100,000 active users each month, conducts trillions of monthly executions, and supports 22 global regions.

Summary of the Amazon Kinesis Event in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region
We wanted to provide you with some additional information about the service disruption that occurred in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region on November 25th, 2020. Amazon Kinesis enables real-time processing of streaming data.

New for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support by Danilo Poccia
With AWS Lambda, you upload your code and run it without thinking about servers. Many customers enjoy the way this works, but if you’ve invested in container tooling for your development workflows, it’s not easy to use the same approach to build applications using Lambda.

AWS Lambda - 7 things I wished someone told me by Charles Malafosse
AWS Lambda is quite simple to use but as the same time it can be tricky to implement and optimize. In this post I summarized 3 years of experience working with this service.

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.

Preview: AWS Proton – Automated Management for Container and Serverless Deployments by Alex Casalboni
Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of AWS Proton, a new service that helps you automate and manage infrastructure provisioning and code deployments for serverless and container-based applications.

New for AWS Lambda – 1ms Billing Granularity Adds Cost Savings by Danilo Poccia
What I like about AWS Lambda is that it lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers, and you pay only for what you use.

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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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