Off-by-none: Issue #281

May 28, 2024

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Serverless Vector ↗

In our previous issue, we got a new Elasticsearch Serverless option, Vercel closed a massive funding round, and Scarlett Johansson snubbed OpenAI. This week, CloudFormation gets easier to troubleshoot, Pinecone launches its serverless vector database, and SES gets its own Mail Manager. Plus, we have plenty of serverless content from the community!

Serverless News & Announcements 📣

I'm a bit under the weather this week, so apologies for today's brevity.

There were lots of really interesting announcements from AWS this past week, including two great CloudFormation updates: AWS CloudFormation accelerates dev-test cycle with a new parameter for DeleteStack API and AWS CloudFormation streamlines deployment troubleshooting with AWS CloudTrail integration.

Also, the AWS Lambda console now supports sharing test events between developers in additional regions, Amazon OpenSearch Service zero-ETL integration with Amazon S3 is now available, and Amazon RDS Proxy is now available in 6 additional AWS regions.

Amazon EventBridge Event Bus now supports improved filtering capabilities for event matching and Amazon SES launched Mail Manager to help manage complex inbound and outbound email workloads. I'll be curious to see how far they take this.

And the Mistral Small foundation model is now available in Amazon Bedrock. For more details on what it's good for, check out the official blog post.

In other cloud news, Pinecone launched its serverless vector database out of preview, Cloudflare's AI Gateway is generally available, and Fauna introduced new Event Streaming.

Finally, Allen Helton shared some heartbreaking personal news. Allen is a staple in the serverless community, so please send your prays and support to him and his family.

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Serverless Concepts and Tutorials 👷‍♀️

Here are several links that caught my attention this week:

• AWS Amplify 2024 : A New Era by Michael Liendo
• Publish DynamoDB Streams to EventBridge using Pipes by Shiv Pal Singh Kaundal
• Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) for AWS Step Functions by Pubudu Jayawardana
• AWS SnapStart - Part 21 Measuring cold starts and deployment time with Java 17 using different compilation options by Vadym Kazulkin
• Spring Boot 3 application on AWS Lambda - Part 6 Develop application with AWS Lambda Web Adapter by Vadym Kazulkin
• How to create a serverless monitoring tool on AWS for your websites costing less than $1/mo by Gabriel Tizatto
• Zod-ORM: Leveraging Zod and Terraform for a Typesafe DynamoDB ORM and API by Ryan Circelli
• Serverless Image Processing on AWS by Chirchir Emmory
• How to process CSV file at scale using Step Function and Lambda function by Sergio Kaz
• Using CloudFront as a Lightweight Proxy by David Behroozi
• Auto-populate DynamoDB Table with Data by Lee Gilmore
• SQL meets NoSQL: Querying DynamoDB with AWS Athena by Sigal Sax
• Integrate Kafka with a Serverless application by Daniele Frasca
• AppSync CloudFormation Scaling Revisited by Seth Orell
• Enable fine-grained access control and observability for API operations in Amazon DynamoDB by Arun Chandapillai and Parag Nagwekar
• The Neighborhood Domain will Quickly Improve your Modeling Skills by Benjamen Pyle

Podcasts, Videos, and more 🎧

Blueprints for Success: Platform Engineering Journey to Serverless Mastery
Ran Isenberg shows you what defines a great serverless template and how to increase its adoption across the organization.

How did you get your first job working with cloud computing? | Working in the cloud ☁️
Andres Moreno, Heather Woods, and Sarang Kumar share their personal journeys and insights into breaking into the cloud computing field.

Serverless GenAI using Bedrock Claude 3 | Serverless Office Hours
Santiago Flores Kanter joins Julian Wood to showcase a prototype GenAI application workflow.

Moar Serverless!! 2024
Replays of all the talks from Moar Serverless 2024 are now available.

New from AWS 🆕

And here are several more interesting announcements from AWS:

• Introducing the Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Apache Spark Structured Streaming Connector for Amazon EMR
• New open-source AWS Advanced Python Wrapper driver now available for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS
• PostgreSQL 17 Beta 1 is now available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
• Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 2.13
• Amazon OpenSearch Service releases cross cluster alerting monitors
• Announcing LlamaIndex support for Amazon Neptune to build GraphRAG applications
• AWS Chatbot now supports tagging of AWS Chatbot resources
• Amazon Verified Permissions improves support for Cognito tokens
• AWS Launches Console-based Bulk Policy Migration for Billing and Cost Management Console Access
• RDS Performance Insights provides fine grained access control
• Amazon Redshift announces Snapshot Isolation as the default for new cluster creates and restores

Upcoming Serverless Events 🗓

June 7, 2024 - Diagrid Catalyst AWS Hackathon - Project Submissions Deadline

June 13, 2024 - ServerlessDays Milano 2024 🗣️

June 13, 2024 - ServerlessDays Bengaluru 2024

Please send me your serverless events!

Star of the Week ⭐️

This week's star is Chloe McAree (@ChloeMcAteer3). Chloe is a Senior Software Engineer at Hamilton Robson and an AWS Community Builder. When she's not helping organize the BelfAWSt User Group, or winning Engineer of the Year at Hamilton Robson, she's out sharing her serverless knowledge and experience at conferences like ServerlessDays Belfast. Thanks for all your contributions to the serverless community, Chloe!

Final Thoughts 🤔

I had an amazing time at ServerlessDays Belfast last Thursday. Could have done without getting Covid, but those are the risks we take to share serverless with the world. 😀

I've got two weeks to recover and then I'm off to ServerlessDays Milan!

See you next week,
Jeremy

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