7 AWS Serverless Best Practices You Can’t Afford to Ignore

Sudden traffic surges can reveal underlying scaling limitations and hidden costs in basic serverless architectures. Explore these serverless insights to help keep your cloud running smoothly and efficiently.

Picture this: Your new feature just went live, and then instantly explodes in popularity. These should be the questions running through your mind:

1. Will Lambdas handle the concurrent storm?

2. Can DynamoDB dodge hot-key throttling?

3. Will the surprise bill from unbounded retries bankrupt your budget?

And if these questions didn't pop up... this newsletter is definitely for you.

You’ll get seven battle-tested AWS serverless patterns — with configuration snippets, metrics, and trade-offs — to keep your pipelines lean, resilient, and cost-predictable at even 10× scale. We’ll begin by peeling back the layers of modern serverless and then dive into each practice, from AI-driven pipelines to zero-trust event security.