Lambda DevEx and SQS Fair Queues 🚀☁️ #83
S3 Vectors comes in preview as well
In the previous issue, Multi-region consistency in DynamoDB Global Tables 🚀☁️ #82 talks about how DynamoDB Global Tables go GA with multi-region consistency.
AWS has introduced two key features to enhance serverless development and multi-tenant system resilience. For AWS Lambda, the new console-to-IDE integration and remote debugging capabilities streamline development by allowing developers to seamlessly transition from the AWS console to VS Code for editing and to debug live Lambda functions directly in the cloud. This improves the development workflow and helps identify issues earlier. Simultaneously, Amazon SQS Fair Queues have been launched to address the "noisy neighbor" problem in multi-tenant architectures. By dynamically prioritizing messages from "quiet" tenants when an imbalance is detected, Fair Queues ensure consistent message dwell times for all tenants without compromising overall queue throughput, thus building more resilient systems.
⭐ Pick of the month
This month’s Pick is “SQS + SNS“.
Jones Zachariah Noel N (Author) shares why observability matters for Event-Driven Architectures, bringing in challenges of EDA with AWS services and how metrics, specifically from SQS and SNS with New Relic integrations, help.
If you are confused about when to use SQS or SNS, the blog should help to understand it better, maybe a combination of it!
🚀 AWSome content to learn from
Axel Dlv digs into DynamoDB - Understanding WCU, RCU, LSI, and GSI conceptually with breakdown of cost and data size with a comparison between Local Secondary Index and Global Secondary Index.
Tom Lienard shares the internals of Vercel’s Fluid: How we built serverless servers with the core of Lambda powering them with the known Lambda challenges and workarounds with Vercel Function Router and pricing plan.
Lee Gilmore in the first part blog - Amazon Aurora DSQL Sidecar to DynamoDB which sheds light on the patterns on DDB and how DSQL Sidecar via DDB Streams solution.
Takuya Kihara’s blog Recheck the differences between AWS Amplify Hosting and Amazon S3 + Amazon CloudFront dives into feature comparison with IaC options, cost along with use-cases.
Inanna Malick writes how to build serverless ATProto applications on Cloudflare’s Developer Platform - Serverless Statusphere using Cloudflare Worker Cron Triggers.
David Behroozi sheds light on a Node based Lambda pro-configuration trip - The Fastest Node 22 Lambda Coldstart Configuration with LLRT and AwsLite when using AWS JS SDK v3.
Micronaut - Introduction to the sample application and first Lambda performance measurements by Vadym Kazulkin talks about Micronaut framework on Lambda Custom Runtime benchmarking cold v/s warm starts.
Kristine Armiyants summaries the new Console to IDE experience with AWS Lambda.
Alessandro Volpicella debunks Reserved Concurrency on Lambda.
⚒️ What's happening with Serverless tools, samples, and projects
Matthieu Napoli has built OSS Serverless.
Catalin Nicolae Mares has built Running tracking app.
Ran Isenberg has updated AWS Lambda MCP Cookbook.
RFC: OpenTelemetry Integration for Powertools for AWS Lambda - Tracer only #90
LocalStack 4.6.0 is live!
🎙️ Podcasts, videos and live-streams
Johannes Koch and Maik Wiesmüller join to take on Implementing Evolutionary Architecture and CI/CD Adaptations with Maik.
AWS UG Madurai hosts Serverless month with Srushith Repakula, Jones Zachariah Noel and Avinash Dalvi.
Eric Johnson gets on the new updates on AWS Lambda - DevEx Console to IDE and remote debug with AWS Toolkit.
On The Zacs’ Show Talking AWS - Arshad Zackeriya and Jones Zachariah Noel (author) join John Ajera talking about Serverless: IAM Policy Guard.
🗓️ Mark your calendars
GOTO Serverless Bengaluru is happening on August 8th, 2025.
AWS UG Perth’s meetup - Building Intelligent Agents at Scale: A Serverless Architecture Approach on August 26th, 2025.
AWS Community Days are happening -
ACD Singapore on August 2nd, 2025.
ACD Oceanic Virtual Edition on August 10th, 2025.
ACD Australia on August 15th, 2025.
ACD Pune on August 23rd, 2025.
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. (CFPs are open now)
ACD Portugal on September 27th, 2025.
ACD Malaysia on September 27th, 2025 (CFPs are open until August 10th, 2025).
ACD DACH on October 7th, 2025.
ACD Nordics on October 10th, 2025. (CFPs are open until July 31st, 2025)
ACD Mumbai on October 11th, 2025. (CFPs are open now)
ACD CEE on October 16th, 2025.
ServerlessDays are happening -
Milano ServerlessDays on October 21st, 2025 (CFPs are open until August 17th, 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. (CFPs are open until August 17th, 2025).
AWS Community Summit is happening on September 25th, 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)
TechXConf is happening on November 1st, 2025. (CFPs are open until July 31st, 2025)
📢 What's new in Serverless
Amazon Redshift Serverless Now Supports 2-AZ Subnet Configurations.
Amazon EMR Serverless adds support for Inline Runtime Permissions for job runs.
Amazon SQS introduces fair queues for multi-tenant workloads.
AWS Lambda enables developers to debug functions running in the cloud from VS Code IDE.
AWS Lambda bridges console to VS Code for unified serverless development experience.
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports integration with Amazon Aurora MySQL and PostgreSQL.
Amazon EventBridge now supports enhanced logging for improved observability.
👨💻 Word from the author
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