Top Links from Issue #317

This issue was published on February 25, 2025

Hanging up Amazon Chime ☎️

In this issue, Amazon Chime gets ready to hang up for good, Bedrock adds Anthropic's new hybrid reasoning model, and Cloudflare goes all in on agents. Read the full issue...

Most Popular Links

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Improving Developer Experience in AWS Lambda: Bridging CDK and Functions
After four years as Product Manager for Jetpack Compose at Google, taking it from its first public announcement in 2019 through Early Access to general availability, I've learned that great developer tools are about removing friction and cognitive load.

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Amazon shuts down Chime, its Zoom alternative
Amazon Chime, the tech giant’s underwhelming alternative to Zoom and Google Meet, is shutting down for good. The company on Wednesday confirmed it will end support for Chime, including its Business Calling features, on Feb. 20, 2026.

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Vercel’s Fluid Compute and what it means for AWS Lambda
Vercel recently announced Fluid Compute, presenting it as “The power of servers, in serverless form”.

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AWS Fargate on a Budget
For non-disclosure agreement and security reasons this is a variation of the solution, not the exact solution. Disclaimer: this is not the only way to accomplish this.

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Vaultwarden Serverless
It’s been a while since I published anything. While I worked at AWS there was a corporate PR muzzle that meant I was barred from saying much of anything, let along interesting things. I’ve also been quiet this past year while working on a new project, Archodex.

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.

Making Cloudflare the best platform for building AI Agents
As engineers, we’re obsessed with efficiency and automating anything we find ourselves doing more than twice. If you’ve ever done this, you know that the happy path is always easy, but the second the inputs get complex, automation becomes really hard.

Building a Data Ingestion Solution for Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases
2025 started off busy, and only recently have I had the chance to catch up on all the new Amazon Bedrock features that were launched during re:Invent 2024. These new capabilities make it easier than ever to build a comprehensive RAG solution using a low-code approach.

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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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