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AWS Lambda SnapStart Accelerates Java Functions
At the recent re:Invent, AWS announced an update to its FaaS offering Lambda with SnapStart feature that reduces the cold start for Java Functions.
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AWS Lambda Now Has Support for Node.js 18 Runtime
Recently AWS announced that Node.js version 18 supports its Function as a Service (FaaS) AWS Lambda and is in active LTS status (ready for general use).
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AWS Lambda Telemetry API Provides Enhanced Observability Data
AWS has released the AWS Lambda Telemetry API, a new way for extensions to receive enhanced function telemetry from the Lambda service. The new API simplifies collecting traces, logs, and custom and enhanced metrics from Lambda functions. Along with several example extensions, there are several extensions available from third parties including Datadog, Dynatrace, Serverless, and Sumo Logic.
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AWS Introduces AWS Parameters and Secrets Lambda Extension to Improve Performances and Security
AWS recently announced the Parameters and Secrets Lambda Extension, a new way for developers to retrieve parameters from Systems Manager Parameter Store and secrets from Secrets Manager. The Lambda extension caches parameters and secrets, reducing latency and costs.
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How Honeycomb Used Serverless to Speed up Their Servers: Jessica Kerr at QCon San Francisco 2022
Jessica Kerr, a principal developer evangelist at Honeycomb, spoke at QCon San Francisco 2022 on their journey of using AWS Lambda to speed up their production application and how the serverless architecture helped Honeycomb achieve their product and user experience vision. Kerr closed her talk by emphasizing, "Technology and Architecture don't matter unless users are happy."
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AWS Lambda Supports Event Filtering for Amazon MSK, Kafka and Amazon MQ
Amazon recently announced that AWS Lambda supports content filtering options for Amazon MSK, Self-Managed Kafka, Amazon MQ for Apache ActiveMQ, and Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ as event sources. The new options extend the filtering to data store and broker services and reduce traffic to Lambda functions, simplifying application logic and reducing costs.
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AWS Adds New Intrinsic Functions for Step Functions
AWS recently expanded support for manipulating input and output data by adding 14 new intrinsic functions for AWS Step Functions to simplify data processing, reduce calls to downstream services, and write less code.
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AWS Adds Coding Assistant CodeWhisperer to Lambda Console
AWS recently announced the preview of Amazon CodeWhisperer in the AWS Lambda console. Available as a native code suggestion feature in the code editor, the new functionality of the coding assistant can make code recommendations during Lambda function definition.
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AWS Announced Tiered Pricing for Its Serverless Offering Lambda
Recently, AWS announced tiered pricing for Lambda, a serverless, event-driven compute service allowing developers to run their code for virtually any application or backend service without provisioning or managing servers. With tiered pricing, monthly costs for running large workloads on Lambda can be reduced.
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Are Recursive Serverless Functions the Biggest Billing Risk on the Cloud?
Forrest Brazeal, head of content at Google Cloud, recently argued that serverless functions are the cloud's biggest billing risk for developers as there's no simple way to protect against recursive calls and they can scale out almost indefinitely on all the cloud providers.
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AWS Lambda Powertools for TypeScript Now Generally Available
Amazon recently announced the general availability (GA) of AWS Lambda Powertools TypeScript. The set of utilities for Node.js Lambda functions helps developers follow best practices for tracing, structured logging, and custom metrics.
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New Observability Features for AWS Step Functions
Recently, AWS announced a new opt-in capability on the state-machine page for Step Functions. Developers can quickly analyze, debug, and optimize Standard Workflows by enabling the new execution page option.
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AWS Introduces PowerShell Custom Runtime for Lambda
AWS recently announced a new PowerShell custom runtime for AWS Lambda to run Lambda functions written in PowerShell. With the new runtime developers can write native PowerShell code in Lambda without having to compile it, simplifying deployment and testing.
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DigitalOcean Enters the Serverless Arena with DigitalOcean Functions
On the heels of the acquisition of serverless computing platform Nimbella, DigitalOcean announced a new offering called DigitalOcean Functions based on Nimbella's technology and aimed to provide a developer-friendly and cost-competitive serverless platform.
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AWS Lambda Now Has Support for Node.js 16 Runtime
Recently AWS announced that Node.js version 16 supports its Function as a Service (FaaS) and is in active LTS status (ready for general use).