Off-by-none: Issue #344

November 18, 2025

Cloudflare Just Leveled Up. Again. ☁️

In our previous issue, AWS expanded its MCP tools, Nova learned to browse the web, and Bedrock AgentCore made CAPTCHAs officially obsolete. This week, Bedrock AgentCore goes full YOLO, Lambda boosts SQS throughput, and Redshift embraces Iceberg tables. Plus, we've got two weeks worth of amazing content from the serverless and cloud community!

News & Announcements

AWS rolled out several updates these last two weeks, starting with a big one for agent builders: the Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports direct code deployment. I'm all for faster iteration loops.

For you Lambda fans, you can now public static void main() with Java 25 support, and more importantly, Lambda introduced a brand new Provisioned Mode for SQS event source mappings (official blog post). It promises 3x faster scaling, up to 16x higher throughput, and measures usage in Event-Poller-Unit-hours (EPUs), because everyone loves a new billing unit.

Also on the serverless side: Amazon MWAA Serverless launched, giving Airflow users a pretty cool, fully managed, autoscaling option. Lambda also officially (kinda) added Rust support (read more in the Compute Blog deep dive) and the Swift AWS Lambda Runtime officially moved into AWS Labs. I'm sure the Lambda team is super excited about supporting another runtime that barely anyone uses. 😀

On the data side, Amazon Redshift now supports writing to Iceberg tables, which is a pretty big deal for data nerds (myself included). And EventBridge added two nice improvements, an enhanced visual rule builder plus support for targeting SQS fair queues, giving you a really handy way to shut up all those noisy neighbors.

Application Load Balancer now supports JWT verification with the client credentials flow, letting you push more auth logic toward the edge without dealing with it on the application side. Nice security win.

In non-AWS news, Replicate is joining Cloudflare, which is kind of a big deal. Open-source model serving meets global edge infra is a powerful combination. Also, JFrog now apparently tracks usage of AI coding tools, helping companies identify developers who only work in "auto-accept" mode.

And finally, AWS welcomed the final group of AWS Heroes for 2025. Congrats to everyone recognized!

Tutorials

• Practical usage of asynchronous context tracking in NodeJS and AWS Lambda by Sebastian
• Outbox Pattern Using DynamoDB & EventBridge Pipes by Lucas Vera Toro
• Amazon Cognito Triggers For Token Manipulation by Lee Gilmore
• Code execution with MCP: building more efficient AI agents by Adam Jones and Conor Kelly
• I Built 17 AI Agents to Work Like a Real Team and What Happened Next by Masha Sharma
• Building Your First MCP Server with Kiro's Spec-Driven Development (Part 1: Setup) by robbrad
• A closer look at Python Workflows, now in beta by Caio Nogueira

Reads

• An Event Driven, Microservices Architecture by Chris John
• Why the Cloud Is Stifling AI Innovation by Emil Shirokikh
• If You Have to Mention AI... by Marco Troisi
• Localhost AI: Ushering in Cost-Free Inference Revolutions by Victoria Mossi
• Why DynamoDB Fails Most Real-World Apps by Maxime Lebastard

Podcasts, Videos, and more

• Running Swift in AWS Lambda | Serverless Office Hours with Julian Wood and Sebastien Stormacq
• Will Ona and coding agents replace software engineers? with Johannes and Lou
• Agent-in-the-loop: Replacing human intervention with more agents with Allen and Andres
• Containerization ≠ Modernization: Kick-Start Your Transformation Journey • GOTO 2025 with Jeevan Dongre

New from AWS

• Announcing EC2 Image Builder support for Lambda and Step functions
• Amazon MWAA Introduces Serverless Deployment Option for Apache Airflow Workflows
• Announcing Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) version 8.0
• Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports Network Load Balancer access logs
• Amazon S3 now supports tags on S3 Tables
• Amazon S3 Tables now support Amazon CloudWatch metrics
• Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals adds AI-powered Synthetics debugging
• Amazon Route 53 DNS Firewall adds protection against Dictionary-based DGA attacks
• New AWS CUR 2.0 features: EC2 ODCR and Capacity Blocks for ML monitoring
• Amazon SageMaker Catalog now supports read and write access to Amazon S3
• MSK Express brokers now support Intelligent Rebalancing at no additional cost, and with no action required
• Amazon MQ now supports LDAP authentication for RabbitMQ
• AWS End User Messaging SMS launches Carrier Lookup
• Spaces now available in AWS Builder Center
• Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights expands anomaly detection in on-demand analysis
• Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is now included in Amazon Linux 2023
• Amazon Bedrock Data Automation supports 10 additional languages for speech analytics
• Amazon CloudWatch agent adds Shared Memory Metrics
• Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector integrates with Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka
• Amazon CloudWatch Composite Alarms adds threshold-based alerting
• Amazon CloudFront announces cross-account support for VPC origins
• AWS Health enhances Amazon EventBridge to give more flexibility and higher resilience
• Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports Logged Batches
• Amazon SageMaker launches custom tags for project resources
• Announcing agreement EventBridge notifications for AWS Marketplace

Upcoming Events 🗓

November 19, 2025 - DynamoDB Day

December 1-5, 2025 - AWS re:Invent 2025

Please send me your serverless events!

Final Thoughts 🤔

The count down to re:Invent is on and I'm excited. If you're attending, please reach out so we can connect.

Take care,
Jeremy

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