#14 AWS Weekly Update (26 Oct 20)

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This week’s picks are:

• PrivateLink support for Lambda
• SNS adds FIFO topics
• Schedule queries on Redshift via EventBridge

To learn more about all the latest updates from AWS visit: https://aws.amazon.com/new/

PrivateLink support for Lambda

AWS Lambda is a fully managed serverless compute service which runs your code in response to events such as new object created in S3, an item deleted from DynamoDB table or HTTP call via API Gateway.

Previously, Lambda invocation used to happen over public IP but now with the support of PrivateLink you can create Interface Endpoint which will trigger the function over Amazon’s private network.

Article: AWS Lambda now supports AWS PrivateLink

SNS adds FIFO topics

Amazon SNS is a fully managed, reliable and highly available pub/sub service which can send notifications to heterogeneous collections of subscribers created under a topic.

With the introduction of SNS FIFO topic, you can build an application which requires to be sent in the strict sequence they were received.

Article: Amazon SNS introduces First-in-First-out (FIFO) topics with strict ordering and deduplication of messages

Schedule queries on Redshift via EventBridge

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, secure and scalable data warehouse service which stores your data in a columnar format to increase the read performance.

With the combination of EventBridge, you can now schedule important time-sensitive or long-running queries.

Article: Amazon Redshift now supports the scheduling of SQL queries by integrating with Amazon EventBridge

That’s all for now. Stay tuned to learn more about new releases/updates by AWS. ✌️