The AWS Heroes program recognizes a vibrant, worldwide group of AWS experts whose enthusiasm for knowledge-sharing has a real impact within the community. It has being 10 years since the AWS Heroes program started and it was celebrated last week at AWS Heroes Summit in Seattle with nearly 200 AWS Heroes from 50 countries.

It's a calm week in my personal life, so I'm gonna hop back in and throw some opinions your way.

We see how you can deploy LLRT for Lambda with Terraform, refactor to serverless as you move to more automation and get excited about a big drop of event driven architecture talks from GoTo EDA 2024 in London. We also celebrate our serverless superhero, Rahul Nath.

We see how you can use DynamoDB as a Secrets Manager, understand events vs streaming, learn about the internals of AWS Lambda, and read up on the latest AWS releases. We also celebrate our Serverless Superhero, Mark Sailes.

In this issue you'll see how you can guard your Cognito powered signup pages, understand the cost of running services in the cloud, and read up on the latest gen AI news. We also celebrate our Serverless Superhero, David Calavera.

Get ready to meet our serverless superhero Richard Davison, explore nifty tutorials on serverless architecture, and dive into some sizzling reads on serverless BBQ SaaS and SQS slip-ups. Plus, don't miss out on the fun with the Believe in Serverless community events!

AWS Lambda was released almost 10 years ago but it's still a centerpiece for many serverless architectures and the inspiration for open source projects.

I want to dedicate this newsletter issue to the Helton family.

CloudFormation now allows the deletion of stacks that previously failed to delete because of a non empty S3 Bucket.

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