What can you do with Serverless in 2020
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The document discusses the evolution and capabilities of serverless solutions by Amazon Web Services (AWS) as of 2020, highlighting various applications such as web/mobile/IOT backends, real-time apps, and analytics. It also addresses customer concerns regarding scalability, costs, and latency, while detailing new features and enhancements to services like AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and observability tools. Additionally, it emphasizes the potential for reducing complexity and costs in developing applications.
What can you do with Serverless in 2020
- 1. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Uri Segev Principal Serverless Solutions Architect Boaz Ziniman Principal Developer Advocate What Can You Do with Serverless …in 2020 ?
- 2. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. How does Serverless work? Storage Databases Analytics Machine Learning . . . Your unique business logic User uploads a picture Customer data updated Anomaly detected API call . . . Fully-managed services Events Functions
- 3. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Serverless in December 2014… and the first half of 2015 Thumbnails Generators! S3 Bucket Lambda Function S3 Bucket
- 4. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Serverless in the first half of 2015 Static Content Generators! S3 Bucket Lambda Function S3 Bucket
- 5. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Serverless in the first half of 2015 Dynamic Websites & Apps! Browser JavaScript DynamoDB Table S3 Bucket Lambda Function AWS SDK Lambda Invoke
- 6. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Serverless in the second half of 2015… and later on! APIs! ”Alexa!” & IoT Microservices DevOps Browser Web APIs Amazon Echo IoT Devices Services Data Streams DynamoDB Table S3 Bucket Lambda Function API Gateway Schedule
- 7. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Over the years, customers shared some concerns… New Paradigm Scalability Costs Latency Language Support
- 8. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Observability Configuration Management Function Invocations Execution Environment Service Integrations So what have we been focusing on?
- 9. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Latency Observability Configuration Management Function Invocations Execution Environment Service Integrations Language Support Costs Scalability New Paradigm
- 10. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Function Invocations
- 11. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Function Invocations AWS Lambda Asynchronous Invocations (Event) Max event age Max retry attempt Destinations (to Lambda, SNS, SQS, EventBridge) ⇣ More controls for async and event-driven apps Scalability New Paradigm
- 12. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Configuring Async Invocations
- 13. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. AWS Lambda – Destinations for Async Invocations Amazon S3 Amazon SNS Amazon SES Amazon EventBridge Amazon CloudWatch Logs AWS Config Amazon CloudFormation AWS CodeCommit AWS Lambda Amazon SNS Amazon SQS Amazon EventBridge Lambda Function onSuccess onFailure
- 14. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Function Invocations Costs Scalability New Paradigm Kinesis / DynamoDB Streams Parallelization factor (no need for fan-outs) Failure-handling ⇣ Easier to scale streaming analytics and manage errors when processing a stream
- 15. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Kinesis / DynamoDB Streams Controls
- 16. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Function Invocations Latency Costs Amazon API Gateway New “HTTP APIs” ⇣ Cheaper and faster APIs Reduce costs by up to 70% Reduce latency by up to 50%
- 17. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Amazon API Gateway – HTTP APIs N EW
- 18. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Function Invocations Costs New Paradigm Application Load Balancer (ALB) Weighted Target Groups ⇣ Fine-grained deployments with ALB, too Stickiness! Create rules depending on Host, HTTP header/method, Query string, or Source IP Simpler migrations to serverless
- 19. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. ALB Weighted Target Groups
- 20. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Execution Environment Language Support Runtimes Python 3.8 Java 11 Node.js 12 .NET Core 3.1 Custom Runtimes (Rust, Swift, …) ⇣ Use your favorite programming language Easier to migrate existing apps
- 21. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Execution Environment Latency Scalability VPC to VPC NAT ⇣ Integrate VPC resources in serverless apps Use new services with Lambda functions (e.g. ElastiCache)
- 22. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Execution Environment Latency Costs Scalability AWS Lambda Provisioned Concurrency ⇣ No more “cold starts” Real-time apps and games Applications with a slow initialization Download config/data on /tmp
- 23. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. AWS Lambda – Provisioned Concurrency We do the initialization, you are responsible for the first invocation of the handler Avoid lazy initializations Integrated with CloudWatch Application Auto Scaling and AWS CodeDeploy
- 24. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Execution Environment Costs Scalability New Paradigm AWS Step Functions Express Workflows ⇣ Build more modular apps Separate business process flow from implementation
- 25. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. AWS Step Functions – Express Workflows
- 26. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Service Integrations Costs Scalability New Paradigm Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) RDS Proxy ⇣ Using relational databases in serverless apps is much easier AWS Secrets Manager stores the user name and password for the database
- 27. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Amazon RDS Proxy – How It Works Preview
- 28. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Service Integrations Costs New ParadigmAmazon EventBridge Schema Registry Rules can now be triggered by CloudWatch Alarms ⇣ Building event-driven apps with IDE integration Integrating PaaS solutions with your apps
- 29. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates.
- 30. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Service Integrations Scalability New Paradigm Amazon Athena Create user defined functions (UDF) using Lambda functions Run federated queries ⇣ Using SQL for analyzing… almost anything!
- 31. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Amazon Athena – Create your own data connector Preview
- 32. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. New Paradigm AWS Amplify Native iOS/Android Mobile Backends Amplify DataStore ⇣ Mobile backends for native apps Persistent on-device storage to write, read, and observe changes online or offline, and seamlessly sync to the cloud as well as across devices Service Integrations
- 33. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Latency Scalability AWS AppSync Pure WebSockets GraphQL Info Object (New) ⇣ Real-time apps More efficient resolvers Service Integrations
- 34. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Configuration Management New ParadigmAWS AppConfig For EC2, containers, on-premises, Lambda, mobile apps, IoT devices Application Environment Configuration Profile ⇣ Releasing configurations changes with fine-grained controls
- 35. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Configuration Management for Lambda Functions Environment Variables Parameter Store AWS Secrets Manager AWS AppConfig In the function configuration For function-specific configurations Part of AWS Systems Manager Can be shared across multiple functions For secrets, can automate rotating secrets Integrated with the new RDS Proxy Part of AWS Systems Manager Full control during the roll out of configuration changes
- 36. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Observability Costs Scalability New Paradigm Tracing – AWS X-Ray Trace Maps – for single requests Simplified identification of service disruption – in Service Maps SNS/SQS support (added in July/August) Amazon API Gateway (since 2018) AWS AppSync (new) ⇣ More and easier observability
- 37. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Observability Costs Scalability New Paradigm Monitoring CloudWatch Embedded Metric Format Percentiles on CloudWatch metrics CloudWatch Synthetics CloudWatch ServiceLens CloudWatch Anomaly Detection (added in September) ⇣ More visibility into your application behavior
- 38. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Using CloudWatch Embedded Metric Format
- 39. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. CloudWatch Synthetics – Monitor Application Endpoints
- 40. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Observability Configuration Management Function Invocations Execution Environment Service Integrations Latency Language Support Costs Scalability New Paradigm
- 41. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Observability Configuration Management Function Invocations Execution Environment Service Integrations Lots of concerns have been addressed…
- 42. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. More tooling available
- 43. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Savings plan Simplify purchasing with a flexible pricing model applying to Amazon EC2, AWS Fargate & Lambda usage Recommendations in AWS Cost Explorer Any instance family—any region AWS Fargate and Lambda Flexibility N EW
- 44. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Serverless Lens in AWS Well-Architected Tool N ew
- 45. SCALING CHALLENGES 350 DONATIONS PER SECOND Case Study
- 46. OLD VS NEW March 2019 cost* $5,393 March 2015 cost* $83,908 *All hosting costs are paid for through corporate partnerships. 100% of public donations go to the projects we fund. Case Study
- 47. WE COULD DO IT ALL AGAIN TOMORROW Serverless services cost $92 Case Study
- 48. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. So, what can you do with serverless, now? ✓ Web/Mobile/IoT backends ✓ Batch/streaming analytics ✓ DevOps & IT automation ✓ Voice/text chat interfaces ✓ Real-time apps, multi-player games ✓ Complex async jobs/tasks/activities ✓ Reduce costs even more ✓ Reduce complexity ✓ And much, much more!
- 49. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. What Can You Do with Serverless …in 2020 ?
- 50. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. What Are You Going to Build …in 2020 ?
- 51. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Thank you! Uri Segev Principal Serverless Solutions Architect Boaz Ziniman Principal Developer Advocate