Top Links from Issue #313

This issue was published on January 28, 2025

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Most Popular Links

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Amazon S3 Metadata is now generally available
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon RDS Proxy announces caching_sha2_password authentication support for MySQL on Aurora and RDS

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Amazon EventBridge announces direct delivery to cross-account targets - AWS
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon RDS Proxy announces caching_sha2_password authentication support for MySQL on Aurora and RDS

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Considering design trade-offs when building serverless APIs on AWS
When I talk to customers who are building serverless APIs, the architects often ask for some prescriptive guidance with some authoritative best practice, as this makes it easier for them to then provide direction to the developers in their organizations.

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How To Protect Your AWS S3 Buckets From Ransomware
Miguel A. Calles Even if you pay to have the objects decrypted, they might be automatically deleted before you even get a chance to decrypt them.

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Introducing cross-account targets for Amazon EventBridge Event Buses by Chris McPeek
Today, Amazon EventBridge is announcing support for cross-account targets for Event Buses. This new capability allows you to send events directly to targets, such as Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), AWS Lambda, and Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), located in other accounts.

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 general availability of AWS Managed Notifications
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon RDS Proxy announces caching_sha2_password authentication support for MySQL on Aurora and RDS

AWS Lambda vs. Azure Functions: Key Differences and Considerations
Both AWS Lambda and Azure Functions promise to free developers from the burden of managing servers, allowing them to focus on running business code. However, beyond their shared goal lies a multitude of differences.

Migrating From Redis to Valkey Serverless
Summer last year we started refactoring one of our services in order to get rid of I/O blocking operations. It was almost a complete rewrite of the service in about 2 months.

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About the Author

Jeremy is the Director of Research at CloudZero, founder of Ampt, and an AWS Serverless Hero that has a soft spot for helping people solve problems using the cloud. You can find him ranting about serverless and cloud on Bluesky, LinkedIn, X, the Serverless Chats podcast, and at conferences around the world.

 

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