In the previous issue, Decade of Amazon Aurora 🚀☁️ #85 we looked into Aurora turning 10 years.
In this issue, we are looking at CDK refactor on the CLI which is now in preview. With the CloudFormation’s refactor capabilities, CDK now allows refactoring with your constructs and moving the resources across the stacks/sub-stacks in your CDK application.
In other news, local IDE experience with Lambda is always improving with now LocalStack able to integrate into AWS Toolkit and available to locally run AWS resources such as Lambda function, DynamoDB and many more AWS services with SAM template.
⭐ 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.
Natan Rolnik writes about what’s new in the Lambda V2 runtime (beta), from API differences and Lambda Handler to Response Streaming with the complete implementation of response streaming.
🚀 AWSome content to learn from
Houssem Ben Slama’s blog - Building a Robust Serverless Architecture on AWS which discusses more about the different Serverless patterns and also anti-patterns.
Daniele Frasca writes how Fargate + Lambda are better together bringing the best of containers to the world of Serverless with also addressing the cost and latency for Fargate v/s Lambda.
Worried when to use SSM or Secrets Manager? Ran Isenberg has you covered with the service breakdown and also a good comparison with the services enabling you to decide when either of the services would be a right fit.
James Luan takes a dig at Amazon S3 Vector - asking if they will kill vector databases as S3 Vector makes a debut while breaking down where it fits right and what’s the down-side!
Matthew Martz details out Serverless MCP Servers than cost less than birthday cake on his birthday, takes a dig into the costing for running MCP servers with production ready integrations and security in place.
James Matson shares how using AWS Step Functions to solve scheduling in an event-driven architecture how the WaitUntilStartTime helps with CRON jobs or even bringing the wait state in Step Functions.
⚒️ What's happening with Serverless tools, samples, and projects
Phạm Minh Đạt has published Serverless tinker.
Mark Sailes has a tool to learn and visualize SnapStart on Lambda.
Chiwai Chan has published AWS CDK IoT Strands Agents Chatbot API.
Hazel Saenz has published Chat API with CDK and Container-based Lambda.
Announcing the LocalStack for AWS 4.8 Release.
🎙️ Podcasts, videos and live-streams
Prabhu D dives into AWS Lambda 101.
On the AWS Bites podcast, Luciano Mammino sits down with Mark Sailes for Lambda and Java.
On the AWS Developers Podcast, Sebastien Stormacq joins with Maxime David to talk about Lambda Runtimes deep dive: Behind the serverless curtain.
Darko Mesaroš shares about using LocalStack with AWS Toolkit for VSCode.
🗓️ Mark your calendars
O11y & Infrastructure AI Marathon - San Francisco happening on September 16th, 2025.
AWS Community Days are happening -
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.
ACD Dubai on October 19th, 2025. (CFPs are open until September 20th)
ACD Indonesia on October 19th, 2025.
ACD Hong Kong on November 2nd, 2025.
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 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.
TechXConf is happening on November 1st, 2025.
📢 What's new in Serverless
New AWS Region - New Zealand (ap-southeast-6).
Announcing a new open source project for scenario-focused AWS CLI scripts.
Amazon CloudFront launches TLS security policy with post-quantum support.
Introducing AWS CDK Refactor (Preview).
Accelerate serverless testing with LocalStack integration in VS Code IDE.
👨💻 Word from the author
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