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Safely Reduce The Cost of Your Unused DynamoDB Tables with On-Demand Mode — An introduction to reducing DynamoDB I/O costs by applying on-demand mode to unused tables (as opposed to just deleting them).

Caching Data and Configuration Settings with AWS Lambda Extensions — How to build a flexible in-memory AWS Lambda caching layer using Lambda extensions which could help reduce latency when relying upon further APIs within an execution.

Building a Serverless Multi-Player Game That Scales — Simple Trivia Service is not AWS’s newest service, but a game built using a serverless-first architecture on AWS to show off how you might bring together similar services for your own use cases. While there is code available, this is more about the architectural approach.

The 20 Most-Visited Amazon DynamoDB Documentation Pages — It’s interesting to see AWS reveal information like this. Popular topics include how to work with DynamoDB Local, using global secondary indexes, and working with expressions.

AWS's Serverless Q4 2020 Roundup — Every three months, AWS rounds up the various announcements and updates made to their serverless leaning products and shares them in a single blog post like this. We’ve covered most of these things already, but it’s a handy reminder/roundup.

Cross-Account Replication with Amazon DynamoDB — Demonstration of a cost-effective way to migrate and sync DynamoDB tables across AWS accounts while having no impact on the source table performance and availability.

Optimizing Batch Processing with Custom Checkpoints in AWS Lambda — With the new custom checkpoint feature, there’s greater control over how you choose to process batches containing failed messages.

You Can Now Export DynamoDB Table Data Directly to S3 — Rigging up a system based on Data Pipeline, EMR, or Glue and DynamoDB Streams to shuttle DynamoDB data to S3 has long been a common task, but now you can export DynamoDB table data straight to S3 in JSON or Ion format (and then query it with Athena using standard SQL).

Building Scalable GraphQL APIs on AWS with CDK, TypeScript, AppSync, DynamoDB, and Lambda — AWS AppSync is a managed serverless GraphQL service and you can bring it together with numerous other technologies to create powerful solutions like a real-time GraphQL API as here.

Instantly Monitor Serverless Applications with AWS Resource Groups — A post that brings together a variety of AWS services to show you how to provision serverless application resources using CloudFormation, organize them with ‘Resource Groups’, and then use these with CloudWatch to get dashboards.

Understanding The Database Options for Your Serverless Apps on AWS — This is very much from the AWS perspective, but briefly covers RDS and DynamoDB and why you might use either (or even combine them together).

Load Testing a Webapp's Serverless Backend — Serverless can scale, but no app or function is going to be immediately and infinitely scalable out of the box. Load testing with the sort of traffic you expect for your app is a valuable process and here’s a look at an approach to doing it.

Creating a Scalable Serverless Import Process for Amazon DynamoDB — How to import large amounts of data into DynamoDB from S3 using a parallel serverless approach, initially with a Lambda function alone, but at higher scale with two functions and an SQS queue in between.

Translating Documents at 'Enterprise Scale' with Serverless — I always want to throw quotes around terms like ‘enterprise scale’ 😄 but such scales do exist. Here we see how Lambda can get involved in AWS-based natural language translation workflows.

Building a Serverless FHIR Interface on AWS — If the term FHIR isn’t familiar to you, join the club! It stands for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources and is an interoperability standard for sharing healthcare data.