Decade of Amazon Aurora 🚀☁️ #85

And also Prime Days hits records with Lambda Invocations and DDB read/write

Aug 30, 2025

In the previous issue, Lambda deployments and response streaming 🚀☁️ #84 we looked into the new announcement of Lambda supporting GitHub Actions and also increasing the Response Streaming response payloads limit upto 200MB.

Sébastien Stormacq‘s blog on Celebrating 10 years of Amazon Aurora innovation dives in the decade of Aurora and the ability to work with AWS Lambda and load tables in S3. Today Aurora and Aurora Serverless stands a choice of database widely used with Lambda or Fargate compute options for SQL databases. Aurora has now explored into the distributed SQL (DSQL) as well.

⭐ Pick of the month

This month’s Pick is “Lambda Response Streaming“.

Jones Zachariah Noel N (Author) shares about Streaming responses via Lambda functions with how to define and leverage the Node’s write() and Lambda’s pipeline() to implement streaming responses on Lambda to reduce the TTFB.

🚀 AWSome content to learn from

Renato Losio digs into the announcement of AWS Lambda supporting for GitHub Actions with how ODIC and the workflow for GHA with some of the sentiments of folks sharing about the new rollout.

Jaya Ganesh overlooks the secure multi-environment AWS deployments from GitHub Actions using OIDC bring the best of Terraform IaC and setting up the GHA.

Vadym Kazulkin continues 3 part series on the Bedrock AgentCore Gateway with exposing existing AWS Lambda Function via MCP and Gateway endpoint and using the Lambda Functions previously created.

Sena Yakut explains how Step Functions could be used for automating cloud security with multiple scenarios for managing the threat scenarios and Systems Manager Incident Manager.

Ritesh Shrivastav writes about Scaling Serverless Beyond the first function with the concurrency limits and cold starts. And how the planning for provisioned concurrency with the architecting Serverless frameworks.

Carlos Filho’s blog on solving Cold Start in AWS Lambda with intelligent distributed cache along with the metrics benchmark and the automatic weekly report SNS.

⚒️ What's happening with Serverless tools, samples, and projects

Ashish Sharma published AWS Serverless Customer Support Chatbot with Multi-model Bedrock.

Martin Lawrence M. Caringal published Serverless-Auth-with-AWS-Cognito

🎙️ Podcasts, videos and live-streams

Madhura Jayashanka explains AWS Serverless technologies in Sinhala.

Julian Wood on his shorts, explains ways to slash Lambda logging costs by 90%.

On Believe in Serverless, Andres Moreno joins Vini Ganancio to talk about automating video descriptions with Serverless AI.

Alexey Grigorev dives into deploying ML models with AWS Lambda.

🗓️ Mark your calendars

O11y & Infrastructure AI Marathon - Atlanta happening on September 2nd, 2025.

AWS User Group Gold Coast meetup: AWS Serverless Patterns Workshop on September 4th, 2025.

O11y & Infrastructure AI Marathon - NYC happening on September 4th, 2025.

AWS UG Seattle’s Challenges with Serverless Monitoring with AWS Lambda on September 8th, 2025.

O11y & Infrastructure AI Marathon - Portland happening on September 11nd, 2025.

O11y & Infrastructure AI Marathon - San Francisco happening on September 2nd, 2025.

AWS Community Days are happening -

ACD Adria on September 5th, 2025.
ACD Bay Area on September 17th, 2025.
ACD Aotearoa on September 18th, 2025.
ACD Poland on September 18th, 2025.
ACD Sri Lanka on September 19th, 2025.
ACD Portugal on September 27th, 2025.
ACD Malaysia on September 27th, 2025
ACD DACH on October 7th, 2025.
ACD Nordics on October 10th, 2025.
ACD Mumbai on October 11th, 2025.
ACD CEE on October 16th, 2025.
ACD Tbilisi on October 18th, 2025. (CFPs are open until September 15th)
ACD Dubai on October 19th, 2025. (CFPs are open until September 20th)
ACD Indonesia on October 19th, 2025. (CFPs are open until September 6th)
ACD Hong Kong on November 2nd, 2025. (CFPs are open until September 7th)

ServerlessDays are happening -

Milano ServerlessDays on October 21st, 2025
Cardiff ServerlessDays on October 23rd, 2025.
São Paulo ServerlessDays on November 5th, 2025 (CFPs are open until September 30th, 2025).

AWS pre:Invent Warm-up is happening virtually on September 9th, 2025.

AWS Community Summit is happening on September 25th, 2025.

AWS North Community Conference is happening on October 16th, 2025.

Serverless Architecture Con is happening on October 20-22nd, 2025. (CFPs are open)

TechXConf is happening on November 1st, 2025.