Top Links from Issue #330

This issue was published on June 17, 2025

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In this issue, Amazon API Gateway adds routing rules, Databricks introduces a new approach to building AI agents, and Google Cloud Run gets GPUs. Read the full issue...

Most Popular Links

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Dynamically routing requests with Amazon API Gateway routing rules by Anton Aleksandrov
Effective API management and routing capabilities are crucial for organizations managing complex application architectures.

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Cloudflare service outage June 12, 2025
On June 12, 2025, Cloudflare suffered a significant service outage that affected a large set of our critical services, including Workers KV, WARP, Access, Gateway, Images, Stream, Workers AI, Turnstile and Challenges, AutoRAG, Zaraz, and parts of the Cloudflare Dashboard.

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Amazon API Gateway introduces routing rules for REST APIs
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 announces open-source AWS API Models
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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MCP Client: Building a Smart and Robust Integration to DynamoDB with DynamoDB-Toolbox
MCP Clients are rapidly gaining traction, making backend interactions more intuitive and powerful than ever! However, integrating them with a database like DynamoDB can be challenging.

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.

Powertools for AWS Lambda introduces Bedrock Agents Function utility
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 Lambda Silent Crash – A Platform Failure, Not an Application Bug
What happens when a production-ready startup proves a runtime failure beyond doubt – and is still told it’s their fault? Over a seven-week investigation, I uncovered and proved a silent, platform-level crash in AWS Lambda — affecting Node.js functions in a VPC making outbound HTTPS calls.

Aurora DSQL Best Practices: Avoid hot keys
TPC Benchmark C is an on-line transaction processing (OLTP) benchmark. TPC-C looks like an eCommerce system. TPC-C scales quite nicely on DSQL, but the schema has some hot spots in it. Let’s take a look at two.

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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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