Resources for SVS313

Harnessing observability to optimize your serverless workloads

Observability is more than monitoring your workload—you also need logs and traces for full visibility into your applications. Many serverless workloads consist of components distributed over multiple accounts and teams. This requires you to join and correlate information from many sources to gain an understanding of the overall system. You then have to ask the right questions to gain insights from the data. In this chalk talk, learn how to improve your observability foundations and derive valuable insights to understand and optimize your serverless workloads.

Powertools for AWS Lambda

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Powertools for AWS Lambda is a developer toolkit to implement Serverless best practices and increase developer velocity. Available for Python, Java, TypeScript, and .NET

AWS Observability Best Practices

15 minute read

This site contains AWS best practices for observability: what do to, what not to do, and a collection of recipes on how to do them. Most of the content here is vendor agnostic and represents what any good observability solution will provide.

AWS Lambda Power Tuning

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AWS Lambda Power Tuning is an open-source tool that can help you visualize and fine-tune the memory/power configuration of Lambda functions. It supports three optimization strategies: cost, speed, and balanced.

Observability using native Amazon CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray for serverless modern applications

10 minute read

AWS-native observability tools offer the fastest and easiest path for your journey into observability and adopting the best practices. The integrations and out-of-the-box capabilities that CloudWatch and X-Ray offer provide you with the tools to better understand your serverless applications from scratch.

Serverless Observability Workshop

3 hour workshop

In this workshop, you’ll learn how to instrument, collect, and analyze metrics, traces, and log of your serverleess application to understand what are happen and prevent failures.

Presented by:

Ben Freiberg

Ben Freiberg

Ben is a Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS) based in Frankfurt, Germany.

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Marco Jahn

Marco Jahn

Senior Solutions Architect - ISV, Amazon Web Services

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