This issue was published on October 17, 2023
In this issue, OpenSearch adds Pipelines, CloudWatch helps you set alarms, and Ampt adds support for Next.js 13.5. Read the full issue...
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AWS announces Search Pipelines for OpenSearch
Search Pipelines, a new feature in OpenSearch 2.9, make it easy to build query and result processing pipelines. This lets you build search query and result processing as a composition of modular processing steps without complicating your application software.
Lambda functions over URLs
AWS Lambda functions recently announced the launch of Lambda URLs where you can invoke the Lambda function directly with an HTTP API. You can read the announcement here. Whenever creating a new Lambda function from AWS console, under the advance section you can enable Enable function URL - new.
Announcing AWS Lambdaâs support for Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) for outbound connections in VPC
AWS Lambda now allows Lambda functions to access resources in dual-stack VPC (outbound connections) over IPv6, at no additional cost.
A Web Socket Primer
The AWS API Gateway has had web socket capability since December 2018. Web Sockets can be used for instant notifications, enabling backend services to send messages or events to one or more listeners connected to the Web Socket service.
Empowering Enterprises with Serverless Generative AI:Â Amazon Bedrock
As the number of Large Language Models (LLMs) continues to grow and enterprises seek to leverage their advantages, the practical difficulties of running multiple LLMs in production is becoming evident.
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.
CloudWatch launches out-of-the-box alarm recommendations for AWS services
Amazon CloudWatch announces out-of-the box, best practice alarm recommendations for AWS service-vended metrics. It provides alarm recommendations and alarm configurations for key vended metrics, along with the ability to download pre-filled infrastructure-as-code templates for these alarms.
When the shoulders of giants are offered, youâd do well to stand on them
Quite often, I read and hear about people who are reluctant to embrace the AWS Serverless ecosystem. Some of their reasons are valid, some are rooted in uncertainty, and in some cases their arguments are very specific to their context.
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