Posts tagged "Serverless" | Alexandre Agius

CLOUD

25 September 2026 · 6 MIN READ

AWS This Week: EventBridge's New Event Bus, Network Security Manager and Cross-Continent DynamoDB (Video)

80 seconds on the AWS news that changes how platform teams build this week: Amazon EventBridge relaunches the custom event bus (one bus for the whole organisation, ordered delivery, per-GB pricing), AWS Network Security Manager is generally available, DynamoDB multi-Region strong consistency now crosses continents, Kinesis Data Streams picks the partition key for you — plus one industry signal: Seller Central opens to outside AI agents.

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CLOUD

16 September 2026 · 9 MIN READ

Build a Live Audience Voting Game for Your Conference Talk in a Weekend (Serverless, Zero Paid Tools)

For a conference session I co-delivered, I wanted a hundred-plus people swiping live votes on their phones — without Mentimeter, without Kahoot, and without a single credential in the JavaScript bundle. The whole backend is three DynamoDB tables behind an IAM-authenticated AppSync API: a singleton GameState row drives lobby, launch, reveal and podium; Cognito guest identities sign every call with SigV4; votes are namespaced by runId so a reset hides everything without deleting anything. Total AWS bill for the event: under a dollar.

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CLOUD

05 September 2026 · 1 MIN READ

AWS This Week: 4 Launches That Matter for Your Architecture (Video)

68 seconds on the AWS news that actually changes your architecture this week: Lambda SnapStart for container images, AgentCore-generated architecture diagrams, Amazon Linux 2027 preview, CloudFront flat-rate pricing API — plus one industry signal on offensive AI.

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CLOUD

05 September 2026 · 4 MIN READ

Lambda SnapStart Now Covers Container Images: The Last Cold-Start Excuse Is Gone

AWS extended Lambda SnapStart to container image functions — up to 10 GB, sub-second resume, nearly all commercial Regions. Here's what it unlocks for ML inference and heavy runtimes, the snapshot discipline that still applies, and how it changes the SnapStart vs provisioned concurrency vs Fargate math.

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AI ENGINEERING

23 July 2026 · 3 MIN READ

Your photos, your AWS account — Argentic is on AWS Builder Center

I built an iOS photo backup where your own AWS account is the backend: no servers, on-device semantic search, a Bedrock agent in your pocket, ~$0.35/month. The full architecture story is now published on AWS Builder Center.

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CLOUD

05 April 2026 · 6 MIN READ

AWS Weekly Digest — Week 14, 2026: AI Scholars, Agent Plugin for Serverless, Aurora Express, and Lambda Upgrades

Weekly roundup of AWS announcements: AI Scholars program, Agent Plugin for serverless, Aurora Express setup, Lambda upgrades, Polly streaming, and more.

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CLOUD

22 February 2026 · 7 MIN READ

AWS Weekly Roundup — February 2026: AgentCore, Bedrock, EC2 and More

A curated summary of the most important AWS announcements from February 2026 — from Bedrock AgentCore deep dives to new EC2 instances and the European Sovereign Cloud.

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