Serverless Saturdays - 15th Nov

AWS UG Tirupathi & Serverless Bangalore Meetup present "Serverless Saturdays", a monthly free online meetup series by expert speakers on the latest and best in cloud and AWS!

Date: 15th Nov 2025 (Saturday)
Time: 11 AM - 1 PM IST

Agenda:
Session 1: "Serverless Agents: Running Intelligent Workflows on AWS Lambda and Strands" by Bharath Takkalki, Engineering Manager at Azuga, Inc.

Abstract:
What if your architecture could think before it runs?
In this session, we’ll explore how to design intelligent workflows that leverage the power of serverless compute and agentic reasoning.
We’ll deep dive into the Strands SDK and show how Lambda-based agents can:
• Dynamically plan and execute tasks
• Communicate across services through event bridges
• Integrate external APIs as callable tools
• Persist memory and context using DynamoDB
This talk bridges the worlds of AI orchestration and cloud architecture — showing how serverless is the natural home for autonomous agents.

Session 2: Serverless Media Workflows for FAST Channels using AWS Elemental Services by Luis Valdivia CTO at +1 SAC

Abstract:
FAST (Free Ad-Supported Television) channels are rapidly emerging as a scalable and cost-effective way to deliver linear content experiences without requiring subscription models.
In this session, we’ll explore how to build a serverless pipeline that takes video-on-demand (VOD) assets uploaded to Amazon S3, automatically encodes them into adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming formats using AWS Elemental MediaConvert, and registers the processed content as a MediaTailor Source Location ready for use in a FAST channel workflow.
We’ll walk through the end-to-end architecture:

• VOD asset ingest via Amazon S3
• Serverless triggering and orchestration using Amazon SQS and AWS Lambda
• Automated transcoding and packaging with AWS Elemental MediaConvert
• Publishing ABR outputs to S3 for scalable distribution
• Dynamic Source Location registration in AWS MediaTailor to enable VOD2Live and FAST scheduling

By the end of this session, you’ll understand how to build a fully automated, serverless, and scalable content preparation pipeline suitable for channel assembly and ad-supported linear streaming experiences.