Title: Issue #118: Serverless maturity and continued evolution
Publication: Ready, Set, Cloud!
Series: Ready, Set, Cloud Picks of the Week
Author: Lee Gilmore
Published: July 01, 2024
URL: https://www.readysetcloud.io/newsletter/118/

We see how you can use DynamoDB as a Secrets Manager, understand events vs streaming, learn about the internals of AWS Lambda, and read up on the latest AWS releases. We also celebrate our Serverless Superhero, Mark Sailes.


### Serverless Superhero

Our serverless superhero this week is [Mark Sailes](https://rdyset.click/NfWyOP). He is a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS with a lens of serverless, an international speaker, blogger, and the key driver behind Lambda SnapStart. We
salute you as our serverless superhero this week!

Thank you Mark for everything that you do for our community!

### Tutorials

[David Behroozi](https://rdyset.click/qbUTuq) wrote an excellent article on
[using DynamoDB as a Secrets Manager](https://rdyset.click/c5ZqnV). In his tutorial and example code repository, he explains how DynamoDB can offer the same benefits as Secrets Manager but at a fraction of the cost, with increased scalability, and reduced latency.

[Jason Stehle](https://rdyset.click/3vMPxm) covers
[using Document Chat with the Amazon Bedrock Converse API](https://rdyset.click/oKfGOb), which shows us how to send various document types directly to Amazon Bedrock for processing. Very cool!

### Interesting Content

[Jeff Barr](https://rdyset.click/IPbNT5) this week discussed
[optimizing Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) for speed and scale](https://rdyset.click/tcyjwG), where AWS recently improved key areas such as scale, security, and reduced latency. SQS currently processes 100 million messages per second at peak times and has processed 744.9 trillion requests since the recent changes.

Have you ever wondered what the differences are between [events and streaming data in AWS?](https://rdyset.click/Dkx7P4) [Jimmy Dahlqvist](https://rdyset.click/zlejYF) covers this in detail in his latest article, describing events as changes in a systems state, and data streams being a continuous flow of information over time.

[Andres Moreno](https://rdyset.click/QAdgsm) and [Julian Wood](https://rdyset.click/6GwHwb) discussed the
[AWS Lambda Internals](https://rdyset.click/Kssn0R) on the Believe In Serverless live stream that is now available on YouTube.

### Spotlight

In season 2 episode 9 of the Ready, Set, Cloud podcast, [Yan Cui](https://rdyset.click/UedLI1) and our very own [Allen Helton](https://rdyset.click/SH2maU) discussed [becoming a full-time serverless content creator](https://rdyset.click/s5Ke0Y), serverless consultancy, and the use of AI in content generation. This is a must listen!

### Tip of the Week

This was a great post by [Julian Wood](https://rdyset.click/4z1mwb) especially aimed at the serverless naysayers, showing not only the maturity of serverless, but also that it is still evolving, growing, and getting better.



### New Releases

- [AI21 Labs' Jamba-Instruct model now available in Amazon Bedrock](https://rdyset.click/JV1Gf0)

- [EventBridge Scheduler adds more universal targets including Amazon Bedrock](https://rdyset.click/zvSgO3)

- [Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports account level subscription filter in 4 additional regions](https://rdyset.click/xNvUZk)

- [Amazon CodeCatalyst now supports GitLab and Bitbucket repositories, with blueprints and Amazon Q feature development](https://rdyset.click/mv52ZX)

- [Amazon EventBridge announces new console dashboard](https://rdyset.click/lAhuI5)

- [Amazon CodeCatalyst now allows conversion of source repositories to custom blueprints](https://rdyset.click/uujSj6)

### Last Words

To finish up this week, I wanted to say how proud I am of our amazing community, and how closely we support, value, and engage with each other. It is still refreshing years later to see this happening daily, regardless if you think serverless is dead or not!

If you haven't already, go check out the [Believe in Serverless Discord](https://rdyset.click/HTknNT) where a lot of us hang out.

If you'd like to make a recommendation for the serverless superhero or for an article you found especially useful, send Allen a message on [Twitter](https://rdyset.click/MYSN0v), [LinkedIn](https://rdyset.click/SGS0ve), or [email](mailto:allenheltondev@gmail.com).

Happy coding!

Lee