Top Links from Issue #333

This issue was published on July 15, 2025

Meet Kiro 👋

In this issue, AWS introduces a new agentic IDE, Bedrock lets you create API keys, and OpenAI's acquisition deal with Windsurf collapses. Read the full issue...

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Introducing Kiro by NI

Nikhil
I’m sure you’ve been there: prompt, prompt, prompt, and you have a working application. It’s fun and feels like magic. But getting it to production requires more. What assumptions did the model make when building it? You guided the agent throughout, but those decisions aren’t documented.

Kiro: First Impressions
Tools like GitHub Copilot and Cursor have made developers extraordinarily productive at generating code, but they've also created a new class of technical debt: undocumented, AI-generated software that works brilliantly until someone needs to maintain it.

Explore AWS services with AWS Free Tier
You can use AWS Free Tier to explore AWS services without cost commitments. If you are new to AWS, you receive USD $100 in credits after you create an account. You can also earn up to an additional USD $100 in credits by completing activities.

Jack Dorsey launches Bitchat, a secure messaging app that doesn’t use the internet
Jack Dorsey — Twitter, Bluesky, and Square co-founder and Bitcoin evangelist — is now taking on the world of private messaging apps.

14 AWS Lambda Security Best Practices to Secure Your Serverless Applications
Getting started with AWS Lambda and serverless development is fast and straightforward. However, security hardening is often either overlooked or done later. In many companies, security becomes a top priority only when it's too late and something has already gone wrong.

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.

Writing Code Was Never The Bottleneck
For years, I’ve felt that writing lines of code was never the bottleneck in software engineering. The actual bottlenecks were, and still are, code reviews, knowledge transfer through mentoring and pairing, testing, debugging, and the human overhead of coordination and communication.

Retries and Serverless: Essential AWS SDK Practices (2025 Edition) by Maik Wiesmüller
Reliable serverless applications require thoughtful handling of retries. Proper retry mechanisms help gracefully manage transient failures, such as network interruptions, throttling, or temporary AWS service issues.

OpenAI’s $3 billion deal with AI coding startup Windsurf collapses, as Google swoops in for licensing deal by Allie Garfinkle
The deal with Google means that Windsurf will continue to operate as an independent startup while key members of the team join Google, a source familiar with the matter told Fortune.

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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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