🦸 Community Superhero

Our community superhero this week is Nelly Andrade, head of DevRel LATAM at AWS. If you’ve been to any AWS event you have probably met Nelly. She is an incredible person always enabling the community whether it’s organizing events and community talks, coordinating the community lounge at re:Invent or simply sharing her experience with all of us. Nelly, I appreciate all that you do! The community wouldn’t be as big and awesome as it is without you.

💯 Spotlight

David Behroozi dropped a new post on Migrating to LLRT (Low Latency Runtime for Lambda). A couple of years ago we were all talking about LLRT and it kept winding down. I am assuming this happened because it’s experimental and people probably encountered the same issues David did. But thankfully David pushed through and has documented all obstacles he worked through.

🔥 My Favorite Content

Response streaming has become very important when working with LLMs, since they can take a while to formulate a full response. By allowing a streamed response users can get a better experience. In the post AI SDK streaming text from Lambda, Chris Cook gives us a detailed explanation on how to set response streaming from the AI SDK using a Lambda Function URL.

AWS recently released ECS Managed Instances, which aims to give you more control over the compute where your ECS tasks run. There has been a mix of emotions in the community and thankfully Renato Losio released this post, in which he has consolidated a few of the reactions from the community and has given us his thoughts around this announcement.

💡 Tip of the Week

Lee Gilmore, brought up a very good point around feeling safe in a team. One of the things I always tell people who are joining my team is to QUESTION EVERYTHING. The moment people simply start agreeing to everything I say, to me, it means they are either not motivated or not understanding.

We all have had different experiences and the fact that I know how to do something, doesn’t mean it’s the best way. Will it work?? Probably. Is there a better solution?? Also, probably.

We need to normalize challenges when decisions are being made so that we can include all opinions regardless of seniority.

🐣 New Releases

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now GA!!. I’ve been playing with AgentCore for a bit and it has really lowered the bar for getting AI agents up and running. This will be the standard way for running agents in AWS moving forward and I recommend you all take a look, plus, it finally has CloudFormation support!

Amazon Bedrock now automatically enables all foundational models. I’ve been waiting for this feature for a while. The whole request process to enable specific foundational models was tedious and I kept forgetting to do it on new accounts. If you have a reason to limit the usage of a specific model for your organization, make sure to use the proper controls at the organizational level.

AWS Step Functions now supports “Diagnose with Amazon Q”. This simplifies initial troubleshooting by having Amazon Q do the heavy lifting of going through the logs and finding the issue. You know… those typical Access Denied issues that keep showing up.

Ever since the licensing changes Docker did, people have been looking for different ways to run containers locally without the added cost. SAM CLI added native support for Finch, as an alternative to running your serverless applications locally.

Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 4.5 is now available in Amazon Bedrock.

Last Words

Now that I’ve booked all my sessions for re:Invent and seeing all of these releases, I feel like we are finally in pre:Invent season. I am now counting down the days until the event. If you are going to be there, please reach out and let’s meet, catch up, talk shop, or chat about literally anything.

Until next one!

Andres