Off-by-none: Issue #292

August 13, 2024

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A new Titan for image generation 🏞️

In our previous issue, AWS deprecated some services, Amazon Bedrock achieved FedRAMP High authorization, and architecture diagrams became cost aware. This week, AWS ups its image generation game, Aurora PostgreSQL adds pgvector, and Neon gets a boost from Microsoft. Plus, we've got lots of great content from the serverless community!

Serverless News & Announcements 📣

Last week, AWS introduced Titan Image Generator v2 on Amazon Bedrock, and it is pretty amazing. Here are some examples of what it can do from their official blog post, and you can be sure I'm going to start spending some time with this.

AWS also announced private IPv6 addressing for VPCs and subnets as well as some enhancements to Amazon Cognito's Advanced Security Features (ASF) including the ability to detect additional risks, cover custom authentication flows, disallow password reuse, and stream security events.

In AWS security news, Aqua Security revealed at Black Hat USA a series of "Bucket Monopoly" flaws it detected back in February. AWS has since fixed the issues.

And pgvector 0.7.0 support has been added in Aurora PostgreSQL, enabling access to the open-source extension for PostgreSQL for storing vector embeddings in your database.

And speaking of Postgres, database startup Neon received a $25 million strategic investment from Microsoft. According to CEO Nikita Shamgunov, the money will fuel expansion into Microsoft Azure and the development of new database capabilities.

Finally, Cloudflare introduced Automatic SSL/TLS for securing and simplifying origin connectivity. There is still quite a bit happening over there, so be sure to keep an eye on them.

Serverless Tutorials 👷‍♀️

• Build a Serverless Web Application on Fargate ECS with AWS CDK by Ran Isenberg
• Ingest and Query Streaming Data with Amazon Kinesis Firehose and Amazon Athena by Ike Gabriel Yuson
• EDC -> Event driven containers by Eric Johnson
• Tenant portability: Move tenants across tiers in a SaaS application by Varun Saxena and Aman Lal
• How to use Amazon Q Developer to deploy a Serverless web application with AWS CDK by Riya Dani, Janardhan Molumuri, and Jehu Gray
• How to isolate tenant data on DynamoDB in a real world use case by Vitor Eugênio
• Uploading Files to S3 Using a Signed URL by Sunil Yaduvanshi
• AWS App Runner: A quick start deploying Docker Container to AppRunner by Chandra Shettigar
• Register AWS CloudWatchLogs Subscription Filter with Serverless
• The Easy Way to Query AWS DynamoDB Tables Using Amazon Athena by Bongani Somba
• How I overcome the Lambda 15 mins timeout by leveraging the ECS + Fargate by Igor Mardari
• Spring Boot 3 application on AWS Lambda - Part 10 Measuring cold and warm starts with Spring Cloud Function by Vadym Kazulkin

Serverless Reads 🤓

Is It Time To Version Observability? (Signs Point To Yes)
Charity Majors explains why it's time to clearly delineate "the three pillars" generation of tooling from the "arbitrarily-wide structured log events" as a single source of truth crowd.

10 reasons why AI may be overrated
Greg Rosalsky highlights the major reasons why AI might not deliver on its over-hyped promises, with the caveat that he still remains bullish on it.

15 Quick Useful Tips for AWS CDK Engineers
Lee Gilmore shares 15 useful tips and code snippets for AWS CDK cloud engineers creating and setting up new projects.

Podcasts, Videos, and more 🎧

Benchmarking real-time data delivery across the globe with Momento Topics
Khawaja Shams explores the latency of event delivery between AWS regions in service-to-service communications.

Believe in Serverless Podcast: EP3 - This is a enterprise-grade podcast
James Eastham and Danielle Heberling review all that happened in the serverless community during the week ending August 4th, 2024.

Building API developer hubs with ReadMe | Serverless Office Hours
Adam Zinder from ReadMe and Aniket Bulbule join Eric Johnson to show how API developer portals have become standard for any business that's offering APIs to their partners and end users.

New from AWS 🆕

Here are a few more notable AWS announcements:

• PostgreSQL 17 Beta 3 is now available in Amazon RDS Database preview environment
• AWS Marketplace launches new dasbhoard and data feed to track customer agreement and renewals for AWS Marketplace sellers
• Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals now supports Amazon Bedrock
• Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3 Haiku now available in more regions
• Amazon DocumentDB achieves FedRAMP High approval in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
• Announcing Terraform support Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB Deployments
• AWS Batch adds support for cancelling queued jobs

Upcoming Serverless Events 🗓

August 14, 2024 - Serverless Feud: Allen Helton vs. Michael Liendo

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 Danielle Heberling (@deeheber). Danielle is an Engineering Manager at Ensomata, an AWS Serverless Hero, and a huge contributor to the Believe in Serverless community. A long time advocate for serverless, you'll find Danielle writing on her blog, co-hosting the occasional podcast, or inspiring other developers with conference talks and interviews. Thank you Danielle for your continued commitment to helping others learn serverless.

Final Thoughts 🤔

I've been slowly but surely working on upgrades to the Off-by-none platform, so look forward to some pretty cool enhancements coming soon. 😎

See you next week,
Jeremy

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