Off-by-none: Issue #314

February 4, 2025

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Apache Iceberg, right ahead! 🧊

In our previous issue, EventBridge launched a killer new feature, S3 Metadata went GA, and another AI video option was added to Bedrock. This week, DeepSeek makes its way to AWS and Microsoft, BigQuery gets its own metastore, and Ampt adds support for Node.js 22. Plus, we have plenty of awesome content from the community!

Serverless News & Announcements 📣

AWS launched a few goodies this week, including Amazon EventBridge's enhanced event source discovery in the console, Amplify now supports using the TypeScript Data client in server-side AWS Lambda functions, and Amazon Q Developer agent can now run builds and tests to validate generated code in real time.

AWS also announced that DeepSeek-R1 models are now available on AWS. Werner even posted about it on X. And, obviously, Microsoft didn't want to be left behind, so they announced that DeepSeek-R1 is now available on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub.

Speaking of not being left behind, Google introduced BigQuery metastore, a unified metadata service with Apache Iceberg support to compete with S3 Metadata.

There was also some progress on Ampt. We introduced support for Node.js 22, so now you can take advantage of all the performance improvements and new features.

Finally, Adrian Hornsby posted that he was leaving AWS after nine years! I know that people don't stay with companies forever, but Adrian was an institution at AWS. Wishing him well on his new journey.

Serverless Tutorials 👷‍♀️

Lots of really interesting tutorials this week, including several new voices:

• How we built an AI code reviewer with serverless and Bedrock by Yan Cui
• Rust vs Node — Kafka producer performance with AWS Lambda by Mohammed Izzy
• Serverless URL Shortener Using AWS Lambda, Api Gateway and DynamoDB by Tapas SInghal
• Converting a String to JSON Inside AWS Step function by Kamal Maiti
• Caught in a Cost Optimization Trap: Aurora Serverless v2 with RDS Proxy by Atsushi Suzuki
• PEP and PDP for Secure Authorization with Cognito by Jimmy Dahlqvist
• Scaling Serverless with Amazon RDS Proxy: A Real-World Case Study by Svetlozar Kondakov
• Designing The Data Model For A Ride Sharing Platform With DynamoDB by Uriel Bitton
• Web Scraping with AWS Lambda in Rust by Jordan González
• Managing Quicksight IP Restrictions Using Serverless Framework and AWS Lambda by Muhammed Said Kaya
• AWS-Powered Dynamic LLM Routing: Reducing Costs, Maintaining Quality by Volodymyr Marynychev

Serverless Reads 🤓

AWS Lambda And The Flying Dutchman — Part 1
Is AWS Davy Jones’s locker in this analogy? An interesting comparison by Victor Ehikioya Raeva nonetheless.

Amazon S3 is more than storage and brings in a lot for analytics
Jones Zachariah Noel N shares his first impressions of Amazon S3 Tables and Amazon S3 Metadata.

A Decade Of AWS Lambda — Has Serverless Delivered On Its Hype?
I'm not sure this article answers its own question, but there is an interesting perspective in here if you can read between the lines.

Cheating Lambda scalability
Daniele Frasca is asking the same questions that most longtime serverless practitioners are. There aren't always easy answers, and sometimes the tradeoffs are necessary.

AI is Creating a Generation of Illiterate Programmers
100% this. I love using AI coding assistants, but I'm nowhere near ready to put my blind trust in them. Even ThePrimeagen agrees.

Podcasts, Videos, and more 🎧

AWS Bites #139: Building Great APIs with Powertools
Eoin and Luciano discuss using AWS Lambda Powertools for Python to build serverless REST APIs, taking advantage of routing, validation, OpenAPI support, and more.

Using Events To Start Breaking Down A Monolith
James Eastham shows you how to use event-driven architecture to add new functionalities without impacting existing code.

Panel: Where Is SW Development Going? • Fowler, Cummins, Gee, Terhorst-North & Farley • GOTO 2024
Great discussion about the future of software development and how LLMs and AI will impact it. As a developer (and a human one at that), it was comforting to listen to—until you realize that it's quite possible all these smart people could be wrong. 🤖

New from AWS 🆕

AWS has been busy. Here are some more announcements that caught my attention:

• Amazon EBS now supports additional resource-level permissions for creating EBS volumes from snapshots
• Amazon Redshift launches enhanced query monitoring to improve query monitoring and diagnostics
• Amazon Redshift announces enhanced default security configurations for new warehouses
• Amazon S3 Tables add schema definition support to the CreateTable API
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports .NET 9 on Amazon Linux 2023
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports PHP 8.4 on Amazon Linux 2023
• Amazon S3 Tables now support 10,000 tables per table bucket
• AWS CodeBuild now integrates with Buildkite
• AWS CodeBuild announces support for project ARN and build ARN IAM condition keys
• AWS Glue expands connectivity to 14 native connectors for applications
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Python 3.13 on Amazon Linux 2023
• SES Mail Manager adds support for address and domain lists
• Amazon Timestream for InfluxDb now supports Storage Scaling
• Amazon EMR Serverless adds support for Public Subnets

Upcoming Events 🗓

February 8, 2025 - AWS Community Day Ahmedabad

February 20, 2025 - ServerlessDays Manchester 2025

March 28, 2025 - Sem Servidor Conf 2025 – Florianópolis

April 2, 2025 - AWS Community Day Italy

April 10, 2025 - AWS Community Day Romania

April 19, 2025 - AWS Community Day Türkiye 2025

Please send me your serverless events!

Take the latest Off-by-none Cloud Quiz 🧑‍🏫

Amazon S3 Metadata is now generally available. Which AWS service is used for storing metadata information?
Click an answer below to start the quiz.

• Amazon DynamoDB
• Amazon S3 Tables
• Amazon Athena
• Amazon EMR
• Amazon Redshift

Final Thoughts 🤔

Lots happening over at CloudZero, including a new role for a Principal Data Scientist - AI/ML on the Research team! If you (or anyone you know) are looking to push the boundaries of AI and ML using all the latest tech, please reach out. We've also been doing some interesting work around helping companies better track their AI expenses. Exciting times right now at the intersection of FinOps, cost optimization, and AI.

See you next week,
Jeremy

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