Top Links from Issue #326

This issue was published on April 29, 2025

CloudFront gets SaaSy 💁

In this issue, CloudFront adds a SaaS Manager, AppSync Events adds better data source support, and Bedrock gets a few new serverless models. Read the full issue...

Most Popular Links

Below are the most popular links from Issue #326 as chosen by our Off-by-none email subscribers. Sign up for the newsletter and help choose the most popular links each week!

Announcing SaaS Manager for Amazon CloudFront
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon RDS Proxy announces caching_sha2_password authentication support for MySQL on Aurora and RDS

Reduce your operational overhead today with Amazon CloudFront SaaS Manager
Today, I’m happy to announce the general availability of Amazon CloudFront SaaS Manager, a new feature that helps software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers, web development platform providers, and companies with multiple brands and websites efficiently manage delivery across multiple domains.

🚀 From Serverless Framework to AWS CDK: rebuilding our minimal serverless MCP server
Hey devs 👋, if you saw my last post about building a minimal Model Context Protocol server with AWS Lambda using the Serverless Framework, this is the natural follow-up for those who prefer using AWS CDK.

Bye bye schema coupling, hello semantic coupling
I recently shared six event versioning strategies for event-driven architectures [1]. In response to the article, Marty Pitt reached out and showed me how Orbital [2] and Taxi [3] use semantic tags to eliminate schema coupling in event-driven architectures and simplify the schema management.

Cloudflare's Latest Product Could Be a Game Changer
Built on top of Cloudflare's (NYSE: NET) global edge computing network is a set of products aimed at software developers. Serverless functions can run on Workers; websites can be hosted on Pages; a full-featured database can be stood up using D1 ; and event-driven systems could be built with Queues.

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.

Supercharge your Serverless Workflow
The rise of serverless has given us new ways to ship business value faster than ever. It allows us to iterate and build cost-effective solutions in record time. I’ve worked with serverless for six years and never felt more productive. But it didn’t start that way.

AWS Responsive Templated Emails using Amazon SES & MJML
In this quick article, we are going to cover sending responsive templated emails in our serverless solutions using Handlebars, MJML, and Amazon SES.

Building Serverless MCP Servers and What Does Peppa Pig Have To Do With It
Build a serverless Model Context Protocol (MCP) server on AWS Lambda—and learn how Peppa Pig fits into the story. Yes, really

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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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