Top Links from Issue #304

This issue was published on November 5, 2024

You get to drink... from the firehose 🚒

In this issue, AWS turns on the pre:Invent announcement firehose, AppSync gives us better serverless WebSockets, and Neon simplifies row-level security for Postgres. Read the full issue...

Most Popular Links

Below are the most popular links from Issue #304 as chosen by our Off-by-none email subscribers. Sign up for the newsletter and help choose the most popular links each week!

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Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database is now generally available by Channy Yun
Today, we are announcing the general availability of Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database, a new serverless horizontal scaling (sharding) capability of Amazon Aurora.

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Moving Baselime from AWS to Cloudflare: simpler architecture, improved performance, over 80% lower cloud costs
When Baselime joined Cloudflare in April 2024, our architecture had evolved to hundreds of AWS Lambda functions, dozens of databases, and just as many queues. We were drowning in complexity and our cloud costs were growing fast.

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Announcing AWS AppSync Events: serverless WebSocket APIs to power real-time web and mobile experiences at any scale by Brice Pelle
Today, AWS AppSync announced AWS AppSync Events, a feature that lets developers easily broadcast real-time event data to a few or millions of subscribers using secure and performant serverless WebSocket APIs.

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AWS AppSync launches new serverless WebSocket APIs to power real-time web and mobile experiences at any scale
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver introduces new access controls for individual Kubernetes pods

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AWS Lambda now supports AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) actions
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver introduces new access controls for individual Kubernetes pods

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.

Announcing end-of-support for AWS Copilot CLI effective February 3, 2025

AWS enhances the Lambda application building experience with VS Code IDE and AWS Toolkit
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver introduces new access controls for individual Kubernetes pods

Announcing AWS Amplify integration with Amazon S3 for static website hosting
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver introduces new access controls for individual Kubernetes pods

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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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