Making Sense of AWS Serverless Operations (AWS UG Nuremberg 02/2025)

Hey fellow Nuremberg AWS enthusiasts! ✨
This evening AWS Hero Vadymn Kazulkin is joining us to dig deeper into the AWS Serverless rabbit hole! 🐰

Thanks to Tantive for sponsoring food, drinks and opening their office for us.

📆 Tonight's Agenda
18:30 - Making sense of AWS Serverless operations by Vadym Kazulkin (Head of Development at ip.labs GmbH)
19:30 - Dinks, Food & Networking

Looking forward to see you 👋🏻

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The talk ⤵️
Making sense of AWS Serverless operations
There is a misunderstanding, that everything is possible with the Serverless Services in AWS, for example that your Lambda function may scale without limitations. But each AWS service (not only Serverless) has a big list of quotas that everybody needs to understand and take into account during the development.

In this talk Vadym explains the most important things to be aware of for the scalability of the AWS Serverless services, quotas (from the hyper scalability point of view, but not only) of the services like API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, Aurora Serverless, SQS, S3 and others and how to architect your solution with these quotas and technical concepts of the distributed systems in mind like token bucket algorithm, throughput and burst rate, concurrency, retry with exponential backoff and jitter and others.

He will also talk about some general architectural decision what services to use in Serverless applications: DynamoDB or Aurora (Serverless) for the database choice and SQS, SNS, Kinesis or EventBridge in case you use asynchronous communication/event-driven patterns