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Insights and opinions about AWS and the cloud

AWS Bites is the podcast for cloud practitioners, hosted by Eoin Shanaghy and Luciano Mammino.

Every second Friday, we share insights, real-world case studies, and candid opinions about AWS and the fast-paced world of cloud computing.

Join us to level up your AWS game with fresh perspectives and actionable takeaways!

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144. Lambda Billing Changes, Cold Start Costs, and Log Savings: What You Need to Know

Published 2025-05-23
  1. Episode 143 thumbnail
    143. Is App Runner better than Fargate?
  2. Episode 142 thumbnail
    142. Escape from S3
  3. Episode 141 thumbnail
    141. Step Functions with JSONata and Variables
  4. Episode 140 thumbnail
    140. DuckDB Meets AWS: A Match Made in Cloud
  5. Episode 139 thumbnail
    139. Building Great APIs with Powertools
  6. Episode 138 thumbnail
    138. How Do You Become A Cloud Architect?
  7. Episode 137 thumbnail
    137. Transit Gateway Explained
  8. Episode 136 thumbnail
    136. 20 Amazing New AWS Features
  9. Episode 135 thumbnail
    135. Enterprise Serverless
  10. Episode 134 thumbnail
    134. Eliminate the IAM User
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    133. Building Businesses in the Cloud with Fiona McKenna
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    132. GitHub Action Runners on AWS
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    131. What do you do about CloudFormation Drift?
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    130. Growing in Tech with Farrah Campbell
  15. Episode 129 thumbnail
    129. Lambda Provisioned Concurrency
  16. Episode 128 thumbnail
    128. Writing a book about Rust & Lambda
  17. Episode 127 thumbnail
    127. Load Balancers
  18. Episode 126 thumbnail
    126. Bastion Containers
  19. Episode 125 thumbnail
    125. A first look at CloudFront Hosting Toolkit
  20. Episode 124 thumbnail
    124. S3 Performance
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    123. What do you need to know about DynamoDB?
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    122. Amazing Databases with Aurora
  23. Episode 121 thumbnail
    121. 5 Ways to extend CloudFormation
  24. Episode 120 thumbnail
    120. Lambda Best Practices
  25. Episode 119 thumbnail
    119. The state of AWS 2024 (AnsWeRS community survey commentary)
  26. Episode 118 thumbnail
    118. The landing zone: Managing multiple AWS accounts
  27. Episode 117 thumbnail
    117. What do EBS and a jellyfish have in common?
  28. Episode 116 thumbnail
    116. What is RAM (Resource Access Manager)?
  29. Episode 115 thumbnail
    115. What can you do with Permissions Boundaries?
  30. Episode 114 thumbnail
    114. What's up with LLRT, AWS' new Lambda Runtime?
  31. Episode 113 thumbnail
    113. How do you revoke leaked credentials?
  32. Episode 112 thumbnail
    112. What is a Service Control Policy (SCP)?
  33. Episode 111 thumbnail
    111. How we run a Cloud Consulting business
  34. Episode 110 thumbnail
    110. Why should you use Lambda for Machine Learning?
  35. Episode 109 thumbnail
    109. What is the AWS Project Development Kit (PDK)?
  36. Episode 108 thumbnail
    108. How to Solve Lambda Python Cold Starts
  37. Episode 107 thumbnail
    107. Expert opinions from re:Invent 2023
  38. Episode 106 thumbnail
    106. Luciano's reInvent Experience
  39. Episode 105 thumbnail
    105. Integration Testing on AWS
  40. Episode 104 thumbnail
    104. Explaining Lambda Runtimes
  41. Episode 103 thumbnail
    103. Building GenAI Features with Bedrock
  42. Episode 102 thumbnail
    102. Getting Ampt with Jeremy Daly
  43. Episode 101 thumbnail
    101. Package and Distribute Lambda Functions for fun and profit
  44. Episode 100 thumbnail
    100. Exploring Ampt, a new way to build cloud apps on AWS
  45. Episode 99 thumbnail
    99. The fears of adopting AWS (and how to fight them)
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    98. Is AWS Going to Kill Pinpoint?
  47. Episode 97 thumbnail
    97. Configuration for AWS Applications (Env vars, SSM, Secrets Manager, AppConfig)
  48. Episode 96 thumbnail
    96. AWS Governance and Landing Zone with Control Tower, Org Formation, and Terraform
  49. Episode 95 thumbnail
    95. Mounting S3 as a Filesystem
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    94. Get the Most out of CloudTrail with Athena
  51. Episode 93 thumbnail
    93. CDK Patterns - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
  52. Episode 92 thumbnail
    92. Decomposing the Monolith Lambda
  53. Episode 91 thumbnail
    91. Our Journeys into Software and AWS
  54. Episode 90 thumbnail
    90. 9 Ideas that would Skyrocket AWS to New Heights
  55. Episode 89 thumbnail
    89. Should you simulate AWS locally?
  56. Episode 88 thumbnail
    88. What is VPC Lattice?
  57. Episode 87 thumbnail
    87. Interviewing for AWS Roles
  58. Episode 86 thumbnail
    86. How do you integrate AWS with other clouds?
  59. Episode 85 thumbnail
    85. Tips for Attending AWS Events
  60. Episode 84 thumbnail
    84. Are VPCs an anti-pattern?
  61. Episode 83 thumbnail
    83. Bucket List of S3 Best Practices
  62. Episode 82 thumbnail
    82. Redis on AWS: Is ElastiCache the Right Choice?
  63. Episode 81 thumbnail
    81. Remote VSCode with EC2 and Cloud9
  64. Episode 80 thumbnail
    80. Can you do private static websites on AWS?
  65. Episode 79 thumbnail
    79. How do you do Functionless APIs?
  66. Episode 78 thumbnail
    78. When do you need a bastion host?
  67. Episode 77 thumbnail
    77. How do you use Lambda Response Streaming?
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    76. Unboxing AWS Copilot!
  69. Episode 75 thumbnail
    75. GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT: Game Changers for Developers?
  70. Episode 74 thumbnail
    74. Function URLs vs API Gateway
  71. Episode 73 thumbnail
    73. What is AWS Application Composer?
  72. Episode 72 thumbnail
    72. How do you save cost with ECS?
  73. Episode 71 thumbnail
    71. Should I be worried about Serverless?
  74. Episode 70 thumbnail
    70. How do you create good AWS diagrams?
  75. Episode 69 thumbnail
    69. Do you know what’s in your cloud account?
  76. Episode 68 thumbnail
    68. Are you well architected?
  77. Episode 67 thumbnail
    67. Top AWS Developer productivity tools
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    66. AWS SAM v Serverless Framework
  79. Episode 65 thumbnail
    65. Solving SQS and Lambda concurrency problems
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    64. How do you write Lambda Functions in Rust?
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    63. How to automate transcripts with Amazon Transcribe and OpenAI Whisper
  82. Episode 62 thumbnail
    62. Top 3 re:Invent 2022 announcements
  83. Episode 61 thumbnail
    61. How do I control AWS cost?
  84. Episode 60 thumbnail
    60. What is AWS Lambda?
  85. Episode 59 thumbnail
    59. What will Serverless 2.0 look like?
  86. Episode 58 thumbnail
    58. What can kitties teach us about AWS?
  87. Episode 57 thumbnail
    57. Cognito User Pools vs. Identity Pools
  88. Episode 56 thumbnail
    56. What can you do with S3 presigned URLs?
  89. Episode 55 thumbnail
    55. How do you build an MVP on AWS?
  90. Episode 54 thumbnail
    54. Are Step Functions a Low-Code tool?
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    53. Authentication for a CLI app with Cognito - Live coding PART 6
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    52. Authentication for a CLI app with Cognito - Live coding PART 5
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    51. Authentication for a CLI app with Cognito - Live coding PART 4
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    50. Building a File Transfer application on AWS - Live coding PART 3
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    49. Building a File Transfer application on AWS - Live coding PART 2
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    48. Building a File Transfer application on AWS - Live coding PART 1
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    47. Preview: How to build a File Transfer application - live!
  98. Episode 46 thumbnail
    46. How do you do machine learning on AWS?
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    45. What’s the magic of OIDC identity providers?
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    44. Do you use CodePipeline or GitHub Actions?
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    43. When is it OK to cheat on AWS?
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    42. How do you containerise and run your API with Fargate?
  103. Episode 41 thumbnail
    41. How can Middy make writing Lambda functions easier?
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    40. What do you need to know about IAM?
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    39. How do you build a cross-account event backbone with EventBridge?
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    38. How do you choose the right compute service on AWS?
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    37. How do you migrate a monolith to AWS without the drama?
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    36. What’s new for JavaScript developers on AWS?
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    35. How can you become a Logs Ninja with CloudWatch?
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    34. How to get the most out of CloudWatch Alarms?
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    33. What can you do with CloudWatch metrics?
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    32. What are the benefits of tags?
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    31. CloudFormation or Terraform?
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    30. What can you do with 10GB of Lambda storage?
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    29. Is serverless more secure?
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    28. How do you onboard junior devs to AWS?
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    27. How do you organize AWS Accounts?
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    26. What can you do with Kafka on AWS?
  119. Episode 25 thumbnail
    25. What can you do with Kinesis Data Streams?
  120. Episode 24 thumbnail
    24. What's SNS and how do you use it?
  121. Episode 23 thumbnail
    23. What’s the big deal with EventBridge?
  122. Episode 22 thumbnail
    22. What do you need to know about SQS?
  123. Episode 21 thumbnail
    21. What services should I use for events?
  124. Episode 20 thumbnail
    20. Should I get an AWS certification?
  125. Episode 19 thumbnail
    19. Is the serverless DX still immature?
  126. Episode 18 thumbnail
    18. How do you move to the cloud?
  127. Episode 17 thumbnail
    17. How do you keep up with AWS in 2022?
  128. Episode 16 thumbnail
    16. What are the pros and cons of CDK?
  129. Episode 15 thumbnail
    15. Is serverless good for startups?
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    14. What can you do with Amplify Studio?
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    13.3. AWS Bites special re:Invent 2021 day 2&3!
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    13.2. AWS Bites special re:Invent 2021 day 1
  133. Episode 13.1 thumbnail
    13.1. What’s on your re:Invent 2021 wish list?
  134. Episode 12 thumbnail
    12. How do you manage your AWS credentials?
  135. Episode 11 thumbnail
    11. How do you move away from the management console?
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    10. Lambda or Fargate for containers?
  137. Episode 9 thumbnail
    9. How do you get started with AWS?
  138. Episode 8 thumbnail
    8. What are your AWS horror stories?
  139. Episode 7 thumbnail
    7. When do you use Step Functions?
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    6. Is AWS Lambda cheap or expensive?
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    5. What are our favourite AWS services and why?
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    4. What language should you use for Lambda?
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    3. How do you deploy a static website on AWS?
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    2. Should you go for multi-cloud or go all-in on AWS?
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    1. When should I use serverless?