EventBridge is event flooding updates🚀☁️ #58
EventBridge new dashboard, Scheduler with universal targets and more!
In the previous issue, Timeouts and async Lambda invocations 🚀☁️ #57 we looked into the new updates from API services - API Gateway and AppSync.
In this issue, we are looking at the new updates from EventBridge and EventBridge scheduler and we look into SQS (oldest AWS Service) that has been improved over the last 2 decades where Jeff Barr shares more about SQS optimized for speed and scale that scratches the surface but definitely a lot has gone into it.
This poll is also live on LinkedIn, has also got some brilliant insights from some of the Serverless minds.
📢 What's new in Serverless
AWS IAM Access Analyzer now offers recommendations to refine unused access
Amazon SES now publishes email sending events to EventBridge
EventBridge Scheduler adds more universal targets including Amazon Bedrock
Amazon EventBridge announces new console dashboard
⭐ Pick of the month
This month’s Pick of the month is “Authentication and Authorization“.
Paul Schwarzenberger shares about building AWS IAM Roles Anywhere with open-source private Certificate Authority in a step-by-step guide and deploying as a Terraform module.
KMS key rotation is important for a secure application, Vivek V writes how we can automate KMS key rotation with CDK, EventBridge and Lambda that provides a walkthrough of the CDK project.
Jones Zachariah Noel’s (author) post about why modern apps are going Cognito states the benefits while in the AWS Serverless ecosystem. And also about IAM credentials and how rotation can be achieved with Step Functions.
🚀 AWSome content to learn from
Lee Gilmore has authored a blog about CDK Nested Stacks which talks about the need for Nested Stacks and explains how the Nested Stacks work and overcome CloudFormation’s 500 resource limit.
Benjamen Pyle explains that Serverless and caching with Momento and paired with Rust increases speed with a dive into architecture and code walkthrough along with Momento SDK and SAM.
Serverless event aggregation with Lambda and DynamoDB by Kurtis Mash who explains the pattern of Lambda’s batching and in-memory caching to aggregate events from DynamoDB Streams.
Camilo Reyes has built a step-by-step guide to develop a Serverless TypeScript API on AWS ECS with Fargate from building the ECR image to deploying it along with the unit test using cdk synth
.
Sheen Brisals addresses whether the Serverless Fairytale over with details into how Serverless has grown to be mature and concepts of Serverless along with the recent buzz about Serverless Dead.
How to pass parameters in Step Functions workflow by Anna Pastushko explains in detail how sharing the parameters between states in a State Machine works and also insights with an actual State Machine with params.
Jimmy Dahlqvist’s blog about Events vs streaming data in AWS dives into the concepts of events and streaming data (does that sound like it’s identical? Nope!), the blog explains it.
Ran Isenberg shares the best practices for CloudFormation Custom Resources with CDK and Python that dives into Custom Resource Types and using Powertools and cr_helper.
Understand how to use DynamoDB as a Secrets Manager by David Behroozi who runs down the DynamoDB policy which primiarly denys any DDB data reads and uses dynamodb:LeadingKeys
condition to allow only an ARN.
Jones Zachariah Noel’s (author) writes about Step Functions’ new capability to invoke HTTP endpoints from the state machine and how orchestration of HTTP invocation is now possible via EventBridge Connections.
⚒️ What's happening with Serverless tools and projects
Swarmion now supports SQS.
Serverless Framework v4 is now GA.
Klotho’s InfraCopilot helps with IaC for building on AWS and Google.
🎙️ Podcasts, videos and live-streams
Vitaliy Lyoshin’s Getting Started with Serverless Technologies with Vadym Kazulkin.
Matthew Bonig talks about AWS Serverless OCR pipeline with Textract.
Few of the Believe in Serverless podcasts - exploring Cloudflare with AWS background with Danielle Heberling and Omid Eidivandi. Lambda Internals with Julian Wood and Andres Moreno. Andres Moreno digs into Ampt with Jeremy Daly.
🗓️ Mark your calendars
Melbourne Serverless Meetup is happening on July 4th, 2024.
ServerlessDays are happening -
ServerlessDays Bengaluru on August 31st, 2024.
ServerlessDays Lima on September 20th, 2024.
ServerlessDays Cardiff on October 10th, 2024 (CFP open until July 1st, 2024).
AWS Community Days happening -
ACD Aotearoa on August 15th, 2024 (CFP is open).
ACD DACH on September 17th, 2024.
ACD Italy on September 27th, 2024.
JAWS 24 hours of AWS on August 24-15th, 2025.
PulumiUp - Cloud and IaC conference happening virtually on September 18th, 2024.
👨💻 Word from the author
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