Top Links from Issue #211

This issue was published on November 29, 2022

Live from AWS re:Invent!

In this issue, we're live at AWS re:Invent desperately trying to avoid the re:Cold, and, as always, being overwhelmed by the shear scale of this event and flood of product announcements. Read the full issue...

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The biggest preinvent serverless announcements you may have missed
re:Invent is almost upon us. Judging by the things that had been announced ahead of re:Invent, one can’t help but be excited about the main event itself! Here is a list of the serverless-related announcements so far that you should know about.

Top Announcements of AWS re:Invent 2022
AWS VP and Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr, plus a select group of AWS Developer Advocate colleagues, have personally chosen their picks for some of the most impactful and exciting product and service launches to debut at AWS re:Invent 2022. From now through Dec.

Announcing the general availability of AWS Wickr
AWS Wickr is an end-to-end encrypted, enterprise communications service that offers advanced security features and facilitates one-to-one chats, group messaging, calling, file sharing, screen sharing, and more. The service is now generally available.

AWS announces Amazon Inspector support for AWS Lambda functions
Amazon Inspector now supports AWS Lambda functions, adding continual, automated vulnerability assessments for Serverless compute workloads.

4 Pillars of the “Infrastructure from Code” by Asher Sterkin
Many thanks to Shruti Kukkar for the valuable feedback on the early draft of this paper.

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.

Creating simple data pipeline with AWS Step Functions by Serkan SAKINMAZ
Data pipeline is the skeleton of your application when you run multiple steps to create the final output. It consist of data collection, data processing , data transformation and output creation. There are multiple options to create data pipeline like Apache Oozie and Apache Airflow.

6 Consideration Before Using AWS Lambda SnapStart by Serverless Sam
AWS Lambda’s new “SnapStart” feature was announced at re:Invent 2022. When using this feature as part of deploying your lambda function, a snapshot (including disk and RAM) is created.

Cloud, why so difficult? 🤷‍♀️ by Elad Ben-Israel
Don’t get me wrong, I love the cloud! It has empowered me to build amazing things, and completely changed the way I use software to innovate and solve problems. It’s the “new computer”, the ultimate computer, the “computerless computer”.

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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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