Top Links from Issue #166

This issue was published on November 30, 2021

My Database Needs Help!

In this issue, we're in the throes of AWS re:Invent, we've checked off some serverless #awswishlist items, and I share my passion for Amazon DynamoDB. Read the full issue...

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[Infographics] Securing serverless architectures
From web threats, over IAM principles to auditing & monitoring.

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams On-Demand – Stream Data at Scale Without Managing Capacity by Marcia Villalba
Today we are launching Amazon Kinesis Data Streams On-demand, a new capacity mode. This capacity mode eliminates capacity provisioning and management for streaming workloads. Kinesis Data Streams is a fully-managed, serverless service for real-time processing of streamed data at a massive scale.

Serverless Framework and Event Driven Architecture by Richard Rhodes
In this blog, I want to demonstrate how you can deploy an event driven serverless service to Amazon Web Services by pairing serverless technology with an event driven architecture to capture a common customer event on any ecommerce website.

Amazon S3 Event Notifications with Amazon EventBridge help you build advanced serverless applications faster
You can now use Amazon S3 Event Notifications with Amazon EventBridge to build, scale, and deploy event-driven applications based on changes to the data you store in S3.

AWS Lambda now supports partial batch response for SQS as an event source
AWS Lambda now supports partial batch response for SQS as an event source. With this feature, when messages on an SQS queue fail to process, Lambda marks a batch of records in a message queue as partially successful and allows reprocessing of only the failed records.

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.

AWS Lambda now supports event filtering for Amazon SQS, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Kinesis as event sources
AWS Lambda now provides content filtering options for SQS, DynamoDB and Kinesis as event sources. With event pattern content filtering, customers can write complex rules so that their Lambda function is only triggered by SQS, DynamoDB, or Kinesis under filtering criteria you specify.

Top Announcements of AWS re:Invent 2021
Welcome to AWS re:Invent! From Nov. 29-Dec. 3, 2021, we’ll update this page daily with the most noteworthy launches from our biggest event of the year.

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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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