Title: Issue #153: Is AI getting scary or cool?
Publication: Ready, Set, Cloud!
Series: Ready, Set, Cloud Picks of the Week
Author: Allen Helton
Published: March 03, 2025
URL: https://www.readysetcloud.io/newsletter/153/

Recent developments have put AI in a whole new light that I can't decide if I think it's cool or scary.


### 🦸 Serverless Superhero

Our serverless superhero this week is [Paul Santus](https://rdyset.click/4p1Qgc), software architect and AWS community builder. Paul is an active member of the serverless community and shares some of his thoughts through blogging. He has a great grasp on the value of serverless and I love the effort he gives to educate others. Thanks for everything you do, Paul!

### 💯 Spotlight

I remember when MFA first started becoming popular, I had a big problem with a new step blocking me from signing in. Eventually I saw why it was important and was happy it was there. The first time I saw a passwordless login, I thought it was a crazy idea and wanted to shame the person who thought of it. But over time, the idea has grown on me and I actually prefer over a traditional password login. [Arpad Toth](https://rdyset.click/65gCGC) published a fantastic article last week on how to use a [YubiKey for passwordless auth in Cognito](https://rdyset.click/JxfbEN) so you can go passwordless in your apps. It looks like it would have been a tricky path to figure out on your own, but Arpad lays it out really nicely in his article.

### 🔥 My Favorite Content

I normally like to learn new things one at a time. Maybe introduce myself slowly to a new piece of tech. But if you're one of those "*just throw everything at me at once*" people, you'll love the blog post from [Neeraj Lagwankar](https://rdyset.click/pchgwI) from last week. His post, titled [Using Cloudflare Durable Objects with SQL Storage, D1, and Drizzle ORM](https://rdyset.click/DUt8pu), throws out a lot of technologies I haven't used before, but explains them really, really well. This article is a lot of Cloudflare tech, but the way Neeraj has written it makes it feel approachable. It's a great, dense article to help you get started with "what the kids are using these days".

[Matt Martz](https://rdyset.click/1dtceq) wrote a blog post explaining [how to build a Discord bot with Lambda](https://rdyset.click/mWU5b3). I thought you could only build bots with stateful compute, which is what I did with [Andres Moreno](https://rdyset.click/wqgg8v) last year when we built an [RSS feed generator](https://rdyset.click/mUux8z). Turns out it is way easier than I thought to get started! Matt walks you through all the necessary steps, from configuring inside of Discord to even building a construct for all of it in the CDK 💙

Clearly I am way behind with the recent innovations coming out with AI. I know what agents are, but have never used/built one. But I just saw a concept last week, highlighted by [Nwachukwu Chibuike](https://rdyset.click/YHsCTm) that blew my mind. Apparently multi-agent collaboration is a real thing, and Nwachukwu shows us [how to build it with Bedrock](https://rdyset.click/1vd5Ft). It seems like we're getting to the point where we have an entire virtual office working for us. Crazy.

I joined Andres Moreno and [Austen Collins](https://rdyset.click/pIL3Xb) last week on the Believe in Serverless livestream to talk about [the Serverless Container Framework](https://rdyset.click/5tWHkA). The stream was mostly an awesome demo from Austen showing the capabilities they've built to seamlessly change your compute type. I loved everything about it, it's awesome.

### 💡 Tip of the Week

Alright, [David Boyne](https://rdyset.click/LuEmSH) just released a feature in EventCatalog that is *revolutionary*. We already know EventCatalog is the best tool to document and discover your event-driven architectures, but now you have the ability to **talk to it** to understand it better. This is just... 🤯



### 🐣 New Releases

[Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet](https://rdyset.click/wqhErz) is now available in Amazon Bedrock. I'm always impressed how quickly Bedrock is keeping up.

AWS CodePipeline got [a new console experience](https://rdyset.click/JZAskW). I've heard mixed reviews on the change. What do you think?

### Last Words

It's good to be back, but I'm feeling a little out of the loop. What has been going on with you? Is there anything new you're excited about or working on? Let me know!

If you'd like to make a recommendation for the serverless superhero or for an article you found especially useful, send me a message on [Twitter](https://rdyset.click/EKPQZR), [LinkedIn](https://rdyset.click/mH8GOj), or [email](mailto:allenheltondev@gmail.com).

Happy coding!

Allen