Top Links from Issue #324

This issue was published on April 15, 2025

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Most Popular Links

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4 Cognito User Pools features you might not know about
Cognito User Pools is more than just a user directory. It's an ecosystem that tackles authentication edge cases and boosts development efficiency. 1. Cognito User Pools - beyond a simple user directory Cognito User Pools is a fully managed, OpenID Connect-compatible identity provider.

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How to Build a Scalable and Cost-Effective Mass Email Service with AWS SES, SQS, Lambda, S3, and CloudWatch
Sending mass emails efficiently and reliably is a common challenge for developers and businesses. Through my recent project, I built a scalable mass email service leveraging AWS services like SES, SQS, Lambda, S3, and CloudWatch.

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Introducing Amazon Nova Sonic: Human-like voice conversations for generative AI applications by Danilo Poccia
Voice interfaces are essential to enhance customer experience in different areas such as customer support call automation, gaming, interactive education, and language learning. However, there are challenges when building voice-enabled applications.

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AWS Lambda@Edge announces advanced logging controls
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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AWS Lambda Extensions and Impact of Nodejs native fetch
Using the Lambda extensions necessitates establishing a connection between the process and the extension API via register() and next() calls.

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 Amazon Nova Sonic, a new speech-to-speech model that brings real-time voice conversations to Amazon Bedrock
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 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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