Top Links from Issue #321
This issue was published on March 25, 2025
An AI Labyrinth š§©
In this issue, Amazon Bedrock ups its Evals game, Fauna makes a hard choice, and Cloudflare creates an AI Labyrinth for disrespectful crawlers. Read the full issue...
Most Popular Links
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Introducing EventCatalog MCP Server
The vision for EventCatalog is simple; to help companies bring discoverability to their architecture and reduce the time it takes to maintain, understand, and build new features.
The Future of Fauna
Today we have some significant announcements about the future of the Fauna service as well as our core technology. Faunaās mission has been to make working with operational data productive, scalable and secure for every software development team.
Building a Serverless Social Media Sentiment Analytics Dashboard on AWS
Hey there, fellow AWS explorers! Ever wondered how to turn the chaotic chatter of social media into actionable insights? Today, we're diving headfirst into the world of serverless architecture to build a simple analytics dashboard for social media sentiment data.
Thumbnail Generation for Images and Videos using AWS Lambda
In this post we will implement a lambda function to generate thumbnail for images and videos whenever a file is uploaded in a bucket. Following are the steps that will be explained below in detail.
How to Efficiently Unzip Large Files in Amazon S3 with AWS Step Functions
When dealing with large ZIP files (>10GB) in Amazon S3, traditional Lambda functions can hit their limits in terms of execution time and memory.
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.
Five alternatives to Cognito M2M
Machine-to-machine authentication is typically used when two systems need to communicate with each other. It is considered an enterprise feature and priced as such by identity providers. Cognito M2M, for example, charges $2500 per million auth requests.
Amazon Bedrock Model Evaluation LLM-as-a-judge 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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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
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