Aurora DSQL goes GA 🚀☁️ #79
In other news, Strands Agents SDK and MCP for AWS Serverless and Containers are available
In the previous issue, INIT Phase Pricing Makes Cold Starts Expensive 🚀☁️ #78, how cold start and the new INIT phase pricing are making Serverless executions a little expensive.
Aurora DSQL, which debuted at reInvent '24, is now generally available. Aurora DSQL is a serverless distributed SQL database. DSQL is designed to be highly available and scale to virtually unlimited scale, and added support for multi-region clusters and strong consistency of data replication across regions. And compatible with PostgreSQL.
⭐ Pick of the month
This month’s Pick is “AWS AppSync“.
Ana Falcao and Leandro Cavalcante Damascena show how you can simplify AWS AppSync Events integration with Powertools for AWS Lambda for the real-time events processing and ways to work with error handling.
Jones Zachariah Noel (author) writes about AppSync 101, the DevX with JS resolvers for AppSync APIs and also a workaround for AppSync Subscription triggers via Lambda Functions.
🚀 AWSome content to learn from
Arpad Toth’s blog Triggering multiple workflows with DynamoDB Streams dives into how EDA is achieved with DDB Streams and using fanout patterns with Lambda and SQS or EventBridge Pipes makes it more efficient.
Serverless x GenAI: The Architecture Match Built for Speed and Scale by Jeevan Dongre where AI workloads make it a best fit for running in the most Serverless way possible.
Uriel Bitton sheds light on how to model versioned data in DynamoDB first talking about the challenge of versioned data to how leveraging sort key as a pattern would fit in.
Tom Nachum writes about how you can catch bugs with CloudWatch Synthetics by sharing the complexity of detecting issues, from having synthetic tests and using the CloudWatch Synthetics tool.
Adam Świątkowski in a tutorial to build a Serverless Chatbot with CDK And Bedrock, guides you with a walkthrough of the architecture and the components used, such as ElastiCache, Lambda, and Bedrock.
In a 4-part series, Seth Orell shares how to crater Your Database, Part Four - Consistency, taking the real-world use-cases of e-commerce with coffee shop and car dealership how eventual consistency is different with DDB.
Mohammed Firdous explains why orchestrating complex serverless workflows on AWS is the way to go with patterns leveraging Step Function and EventBridge for both async and event-driven workflows.
Building & Testing Lambda@Edge Functions with LocalStack by Tobias Schmidt with a tutorial on setting up LocalStack and how Lambda@Edge functions could be locally built, tested, and deployed with LocalStack.
Armand Rego explains using FFmpeg on AWS Lambda with Docker how it makes the developer's life easy with the container image and battling the memory and execution limitations.
Yan Cui has been busting some Serverless Myths with local development and Serverless.
⚒️ What's happening with Serverless tools, samples, and projects
Davide De Sio has published Serverless Strands Weather Agent, you also also read more here.
Utkarsh Rastogi builds serverless-feedback-system
Vidit Shah has published Amazon Cognito to AWS Lambda to Amazon DynamoDB pattern.
Jason Butz has built JavaScript Lambda Runtime Benchmark
Harry Sidhu published S3 Object Transformer Lambda function sample.
🎙️ Podcasts, videos and live-streams
AWS Blog Serverless Brazil - NodeJS 22 on AWS Lambda
Rishi Tiwari shares how to restrict S3 access using CloudFront signed cookies and URLs
The Feature You Must Know About If You're Using Lambda SnapStart for .NET by James Eastham
🗓️ Mark your calendars
Serverless Saturdays is happening virtually on May 31st, 2025.
Serverless Toronto is hosting A2A (Agent2Agent) & MCP Protocols & Serverless on June 10th, 2025.
AWS Meetup 06/12 - AWS User Group Warsaw happening on June 12th, 2025.
Melbourne Serverless Meetup Group event for June 2025 on June 19th, 2025.
AWS Community Days are happening -
ACD Midwest on June 5th, 2025.
ACD Singapore on August 2nd, 2025. (CFPs are open until June 1st, 2025)
ACD Oceanic Virtual Edition on August 10th, 2025. (CFPs are open until June 27th 2025)
ACD Australia on August 15th, 2025. (CFPs are open until May 31st, 2025)
ACD Adria on September 5th, 2025.
ACD Aotearoa on September 18th, 2025 (CFPs are open until July 27th, 2025).
ACD Poland on September 18th, 2025. (CFPs are open until July 6th, 2025)
ACD Portugal on September 27th, 2025.
ACD DACH on October 7th, 2025. (CFPs open until June 15th, 2025)
ACD CEE on October 16th, 2025. (CFPs open until June 20th, 2025)
AWS Community Summit is happening on September 25th, 2025. (CFPs open until July 1st, 2025).
AWS North Community Conference is happening on October 16th, 2025. (CFPs are open until July 31st, 2025)
Serverless Architecture Con is happening on October 20-22nd, 2025. (CFPs are open)
📢 What's new in Serverless
Amazon Aurora DSQL, the fastest serverless distributed SQL database is now generally available
Introducing the AWS Product Lifecycle page and AWS service availability updates
DynamoDB local is now accessible on AWS CloudShell
Announcing Workflow in Azure Container Apps with the Durable task scheduler – Now in Preview!
Announcing new Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers for AWS Serverless and Containers
👨💻 Word from the author
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