Off-by-none: Issue #329

June 3, 2025

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The New Default Serverless Database? 👨‍💻

In our previous issue, Claude 4 came to Bedrock, Cost Anomalies came to you, and AWS figured out how to better communicate product lifecycle updates. This week, Amazon Aurora DSQL goes GA, AWS Serverless gets a powerful MCP server, and Snowflake gets into the Postgres game. Plus, we have lots of awesome serverless and cloud content from the community!

Serverless News & Announcements 📣

Hi all! I'm at FinOps X in San Diego this week, so let's get straight to it.

The big news is that Amazon Aurora DSQL is now generally available! Is this service perfect? Not yet. Does it potentially become the new standard for serverless applications over DynamoDB? Most likely! And the fact that AWS Backup now supports Amazon Aurora DSQL, it's hard to see devs not reaching for this tool first.

AWS also announced new Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers for AWS Serverless and Containers, which is pretty cool. This deep dive on the AWS Serverless MCP Server shows just how helpful these tools can be. Plus, the AWS CDK Toolkit Library is now generally available. If you're integrating CDK processes into your deployment pipelines, this will make things a lot easier.

Since I'm at FinOps X, I should also mention that the AWS Pricing Calculator now supports discounts and purchase commitments and AWS Cost Explorer now offers a new Cost Comparison feature. Monitoring and controlling costs continues to become a developer responsibility. Make sure you learn and use these tools.

And finally, Snowflake agreed to buy Crunchy Data to add enterprise-ready Postgres to their offering.

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Serverless Tutorials 👷‍♀️

Here are some of my favorite tutorials from last week:

Serverless Reads 🤓

Podcasts, Videos, and more 🎧

New from AWS 🆕

Here are several more interesting announcements and updates from AWS:

Upcoming Events 🗓

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Final Thoughts 🤔

I'm out here at FinOps X in San Diego, so if you're around, please reach out to say "hi!"

See you next week,
Jeremy

I hope you enjoyed this newsletter. We're always looking for ideas and feedback to make it better and more inclusive, so please feel free to reach out to me via Bluesky, LinkedIn, X, or email.

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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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