Off-by-none: Issue #291

August 6, 2024

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Discontinued by AWS ☠️

In our previous issue, Bedrock added Meta Llama 3.1 405B, Step Functions got customer-managed keys, and Google Cloud's serverless functions were vulnerable to attack. This week, AWS deprecates some services, Bedrock gets ready for the feds, and architecture diagrams become cost aware. Plus, we have a plenty of serverless content from our amazing community!

Serverless News & Announcements 📣

Last week we found ourselves in unfamiliar territory: AWS began deprecating services! For those of you who may not be aware of the history, AWS pretty much never does this. Not only that, but it wasn't communicated very well and people were not happy about it.

After giving it a lot of thought, we made the decision to discontinue new access to a small number of services, including AWS CodeCommit.

While we are no longer onboarding new customers to these services, there are no plans to change the features or experience you get today,…

— Jeff Barr ☁️ (@jeffbarr) July 31, 2024

It was confirmed that S3 Select, CloudSearch, Cloud9, SimpleDB, Forecast, Data Pipeline, and CodeCommit are the services that will no longer be accessible to new customers. Personally, I think AWS has overextended itself with many of these in-between products. I would love to see them focus on the core building blocks and let others fill in the rest.

In other curious AWS news, Amazon Bedrock achieved FedRAMP High authorization. Will government agencies start integrating GenAI it into some of their workflows? Maybe they already are? 🤷‍♂️

And finally, Miro's AWS integration added an AWS Cost Calculator widget that appears to calculate architecture costs in real time. Could be handy for back of the napkin math when sketching out ideas.

Serverless Concepts 🏗

• AWS API Gateway vs. Lambda Function URLs: Choosing the Right Public HTTP Endpoint by Kuldeepkumawat
• DynamoDB: Best Practices for Developers (2024) by Pooyan Razian
• AWS Serverless Scalability- Part 1 Importance of the constant learning by Vadym Kazulkin
• Amazon Kinesis vs DynamoDB Streams — Key Features and Differences by Neal Davis

Serverless Tutorials 👷‍♀️

• Efficient Financial Pre-Screening Workflows Using AWS Step Functions - Part 1 and Part 2 by Zeeshan Lalani
• How to connect multiple Lambda functions in one API Gateway (SAM Template) with Stage variables by Joshua Ochia
• What’s the best way to do fan-out/fan-in serverlessly in 2024? by Yan Cui
• Powerful Visibility with Rust, Lambda, Datadog, and OpenTelemetry by Benjamen Pyle
• Testing AWS AppSync JavaScript Resolvers by Seth Orell
• Achieving Asynchronous Processing with AWS Lambda: Techniques to Extend Execution Post-Response by Williams O
• RAG on media content with Bedrock Knowledge Bases and Amazon Transcribe by Zied Ben Tahar
• Mastering AWS Step Functions Error Handling by Kasun de Silva
• Using Amazon Cognito with the user-password flow by Andres Moreno
• Serverless OG Image Generator with Lambda by Atakan Demircioğlu

Serverless Reads 🤓

The end of the Everything Cloud
Speaking of AWS deprecations, Forrest Brazeal has an excellent post that better explains the impact of those decisions.

Is Serverless Monolith a good or bad thing?
Jaime Nagase shares his perspective on the Lambdalith versus Single-Purpose Function debate.

One Year with DynamoDB
Bjorn Boschman walks us through his team's experience adopting DynamoDB.

Podcasts, Videos, and more 🎧

There was A LOT of great video content from this past week. Many thanks to the Believe in Serverless community for the steady stream of learning.

• Does AWS App Studio really make enterprise-grade apps? from Believe In Serverless
• Serverless Craic Ep59 How to Wardley Map from The Serverless Edge
• DynamoDB - Common mistakes and how to optimize usage from Believe In Serverless
• Understand Observability for Event-Driven Systems by James Eastham
• Think like an architect: a mental model for designing your softwares - Part ONE from Raj and Luca
• Believe In Serverless Podcast - Ep 2: This is a disaster (recovery)
• Rusty Serverless | Serverless Office Hours
• Production-ready WebSockets with Yan Cui from Believe In Serverless

New from AWS 🆕

Here are a few more AWS announcements that might interest you:

• AWS CodeBuild now supports three new Arm-based compute types
• Amazon Redshift releases drivers for supporting single sign-on with AWS IAM Identity Center
• Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is now available in additional AWS Regions
• AWS CodePipeline introduces stage level conditions to implement pipeline gates
• Announcing fine-grained access control via AWS Lake Formation with EMR Serverless
• AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) expands DMS homogeneous data migrations feature to 29 AWS regions

Upcoming Serverless Events 🗓

August 31, 2024 - ServerlessDays Bengaluru 2024

September 20, 2024 - ServerlessDays Lima

October 10, 2024 - ServerlessDays Cardiff

February 20, 2025 - ServerlessDays Manchester 2025

Please send me your serverless events!

Star of the Week ⭐️

This week's star is Heitor Lessa (@heitor_lessa). Heitor is the former Chief Architect of Powertools for AWS and an absolute legend in the serverless community. After 11 years at AWS, Heitor is moving on to his next adventure, leaving behind a long list of major serverless contributions including the AWS Well-Architected Serverless Lens and (of course) Powertools for AWS Lambda. Heitor, your impact on serverless and the community around it cannot be understated. Thank you for all the things you've done, and we look forward to seeing what you do next.

Final Thoughts 🤔

Hope you're all enjoying the remaining dog days of summer and finding some time to recharge before everything ramps up again. I have a feeling this is going to be a busy next few months!

See you next week,
Jeremy

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