Top Links from Issue #222
This issue was published on February 21, 2023
AWS accounts should be cattle 🐂
In this issue, AWS adds more account lifecycle controls, App Runner learns to share more, and serverless gets bash'd. Read the full issue...
Most Popular Links
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AWS Step Functions adds integration for 35 services including EMR Serverless
AWS Step Functions expands its AWS SDK integrations with support for 35 additional AWS services including Amazon EMR Serverless, AWS Clean Rooms, AWS IoT Fleetwise and AWS IoT Roborunner.
Programmatically manage enabled and disabled opt-in AWS Regions on AWS accounts
Today, we are making it easier for customers to view and manage enabled and disabled opt-in AWS Regions on their AWS accounts using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) and AWS Software Development Kit (SDK).
AWS App Runner adds service level concurrency, CPU and Memory utilization metrics
AWS App Runner now adds service level metrics for CPU utilization, Compute Memory utilization, and the total number of concurrent requests served by the App Runner service in the App Runner console and Amazon CloudWatch.
OpenTelemetry on AWS, beyond instrumentation and into resource attributes by Michele Mancioppi
Instrumenting your code is essential to understanding your system’s performance and diagnosing issues as they arise. Traditionally, this was accomplished using proprietary vendor libraries, causing major lock-in. Enter OpenTelemetry.
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.
Get me there faster
If you are following me on Twitter or read some of my posts, especially on this "Serverless Latency" series, you have noticed that I am not concentrating on the hello world aspect of Serverless anymore but more on squeezing out the best performance that I can get with Serverless application.
DynamoDB Stream fan-out to multiple Lambda functions with EventBridge Pipes and EventBus by Zied Ben Tahar
DynamoDB Streams allow tracking changes on table items, Lambda functions can subscribe and react to these changes. However, subscribing more than two Lambda functions per stream shard can result in throttling or failed requests.
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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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