Top Links from Issue #327
This issue was published on May 20, 2025
No more free lunch for Lambda INIT 💰
In this issue, we play a bit of catch up, .NET learns to transform itself, and Lambda standardizes INIT billing. Read the full issue...
Most Popular Links
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AWS Lambda introduces tiered pricing for Amazon CloudWatch logs and additional logging destinations by Shridhar Pandey
Effective logging is an important part of an observability strategy when building serverless applications using AWS Lambda. Lambda automatically captures and sends logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs.
🌐 Building a multi-region Serverless API with the AWS CDK, Lambda, and DynamoDB
While working on DynamoDB-Toolshack, I encountered a common challenge: ensuring fast and reliable performance for users worldwide. In today’s digital landscape, users expect snappy responses no matter their location. Meeting this demand often requires deploying globally distributed infrastructure.
Quarkus 3 application on AWS Lambda- Part 1 Introduction to the sample application and first Lambda performance measurements
What will we explore and learn in this article series? In this article series, we will explore some ways to develop, deploy and run applications on AWS Lambda using the Quarkus framework. Of course, we will measure performance (the cold and warm start times) of the Lambda function.
Amazon Q Developer announces a new agentic coding experience in the IDE
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon RDS Proxy announces caching_sha2_password authentication support for MySQL on Aurora and RDS
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.
Optimizing cold start performance of AWS Lambda using advanced priming strategies with SnapStart by Shan Kandaswamy
Introduced at re:Invent 2022, SnapStart is a performance optimization that makes it easier to build highly responsive and scalable applications using AWS Lambda. The largest contributor to startup latency (often referred to as cold-start time) is the time spent initializing a function.
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