OpenClaw on Lightsail🚀☁️ #98

And S3 turns 20 this Pi Day

Mar 15, 2026

In the previous issue, Durable functions flooded up and Java SDK out 🚀☁️ #97 dived into Durable Functions and it’s new Java SDK.

In this issue, we all have heard about OpenClaw going viral and everyone queueing up at Apple Store to grab a Mac Mini but now with Amazon Lightsail now enabling the one-click development for OpenClaw makes OpenClaw available over the Cloud over an "always-on" local machine or complex VPC networking.

Lightsail eliminates the need for isolated physical hardware. By leveraging Lightsail’s simplified VPS instances, you get the security of a private, air-gapped environment with the availability of the cloud. It provides a cost-effective, “set-and-forget” home for OpenClaw that remains accessible from all your devices without the overhead of maintaining a home server.

⭐ Pick of the month

This month’s Pick is “Amazon S3“.

Sébastien Stormacq reflects on 20 years of Amazon S3 and what’s next as it’s evolved to be the one stop for data and vector DB while still being able to deliver for scale and highly available.

Ian Mckay reflects on S3’s issue with bucketsquatting and how it’s now resolved with the new regional namespace that protects you with bucketsquatting attacks.

Jones Zachariah Noel N (author)’s blog Amazon S3 is more than storage and brings in a lot for the analytics ecosystem reflects on how S3 has now grown to be a core compnent for data with S3 Tables.

🚀 AWSome content to learn from

Benjamin Ajewole’s Replacing Glue Lambdas with EventBridge Pipes explains how EB Pipes adds on to the data transformation piece of a serverless workload, and its advantages.

Avinash Dalvi takes a route with Serverless render that replaced prerender.io, which costs $0, leveraging Lambda@Edge and the problems associated with it, and the fix for it.

Darryl Ruggles reflects on building a Serverless blogging platform with AWS and Claude Code with components of SES, Bedrock AI, analytics and markdown editor leveraging MCP servers to bring the best of practices.

Ngwa Bandolo Bobga Cyril writes about Dead-Letter Queue Triage with AWS Bedrock & Step Functions where DLQ is supposed to declog your system, but with retries and DLQ errors clog up.

Mark Harris explains how the separation of duties with IaC v/s AppCode, specifically Lambda functions, where using frameworks such as Terraform, CDK, and others for infrastructure and packaging the app code with them.

Danielle Heberling shares her migration journey from Step Function as she rewrote it as a durable function with the issue with CDK LambdaInoke scheduler and how durable function rejects unqualified ARNs.

Gunnar Grosch’s blog on Circuit Breakers on AWS Lambda: Why In-Memory State Silently Fails talks about the circuit breaker patterns on Lambda with distributed state and how its failure costs the architecture!

Awedis Keofteian walks through Building and Shipping Apps Faster with Kiro’s Agentic Power where the SDD with Kiro and validating the generated Terraform and Lambda Handlers.

David Behroozi explains how Lambda Function URLs can be used for obtaining the caller ip address and how Lambda is triggered with x-forwarded-for a header from CloudFront.

Brian McNamara takes on the question of AWS Lambda v/s Fargate with the cost exercise with the consideration of cloud cost v/s total cost and mitigation risks.

Matias Kreder gives a rundown of running OpenClaw on AWS Bedrock AgentCore using the NAT Gateway for making it available publicly, along with some AZ support on AgentCore gotchas!