Top Links from Issue #329
This issue was published on June 3, 2025
The New Default Serverless Database? 👨💻
In this issue, Amazon Aurora DSQL goes GA, AWS Serverless gets a powerful MCP server, and Snowflake gets into the Postgres game. Read the full issue...
Most Popular Links
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Amazon Aurora DSQL is now generally available by Channy Yun
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Aurora DSQL, the fastest serverless distributed SQL database with virtually unlimited scale, the highest availability, and zero infrastructure management for always available applications.
Introducing AWS Serverless MCP Server: AI-powered development for modern applications by Shridhar Pandey
Modern application development demands faster, more efficient ways to build and deploy software.
Announcing new Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers for AWS Serverless and Containers
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon RDS Proxy announces caching_sha2_password authentication support for MySQL on Aurora and RDS
AWS CDK Toolkit Library 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
Choosing between EventBridge, SNS, and SQS for event-driven patterns
TL;DR: AWS offers multiple services for decoupling business domains in event-driven patterns. The three main ones are EventBridge, SNS, and SQS. Use EventBridge for targeted content-based routing when you need to match complex rules.
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.
Enhance AI-assisted development with Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS and AWS Serverless MCP server
Today, we’re introducing specialized Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), and AWS Serverless, now available in the AWS Labs GitHub repository.
Enterprise alert: PostgreSQL just became the database you can’t ignore for AI applications
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The open-source PostgreSQL (sometimes also referred to as Postgres) is apparently a very hot commodity for big enterprise data platform vendors.
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