Your latest weekly digest from the cloud computing world is here. This edition covers Amazon Web Services (AWS), Prime Day, Serverless Computing, and AWS Lambda.

Quick Bites: Rapid Updates

1. The newest AWS Heroes of September 2023 are here! Meet them and learn about their contributions to the AWS community.
2. AWS Lambda – AWS Lambda now supports Ruby 3.2. Ruby 3.2 has many new improvements, for example, passing anonymous arguments to functions or having endless methods. Check out this blog post that goes in depth into each of the new features.
3. CDK Day – CDK Day is happening again this year on September 29. The call for papers for this event is open, and this year, AWS is also accepting talks in Spanish. Submit your talk here.

Amazon Prime Day 2023 Numbers

Amazon release its 2023 Prime-Day numbers, and it’s 🤯 mind-boggling to say the least

• Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS): The Amazon Prime Day event resulted in an incremental 163 petabytes of EBS storage capacity allocated – generating a peak of 15.35 trillion requests and 764 petabytes of data transfer per day 🤯
• AWS CloudTrail: processed over 830 billion events in support of Prime Day 2023.
• Amazon DynamoDB: maintained high availability while delivering single-digit millisecond responses and peaking at 126 million requests per second.
• Amazon Aurora: On Prime Day, 5,835 database instances running the PostgreSQL-compatible and MySQL-compatible editions of Amazon Aurora processed 318 billion transactions, stored 2,140 terabytes of data, and transferred 836 terabytes of data.
• Amazon Simple Email Service (SES): sent 56% more emails for Amazon.com during Prime Day 2023 vs. 2022, delivering 99.8% of those emails to customers.
• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2): Amazon used tens of millions of normalized AWS Graviton-based Amazon EC2 instances, to power over 2,600 services. By using more Graviton-based instances, Amazon was able to get the compute capacity needed while using up to 60% less energy
• Amazon CloudFront: handled a peak load of over 500 million HTTP requests per minute, for a total of over 1 trillion HTTP requests during Prime Day.
• Amazon SQS: set a new traffic record by processing 86 million messages per second 🤯 at peak

Article of the Week

Ever faced a dilemma on how to choose between Serverless, VMs, and Containers? This article from Data Center Knowledge might help you decide.



That’s a wrap for this edition of Last Week in the ⛅️ Cloud! 

Stay curious, stay cloud-inspired. 

I’ll be back next week with more exciting news from the ever-evolving cloud universe.

iLyas