What can you do with Serverless… in 2020?

Serverless Italy Meetup, April 2nd, 2020

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1. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Danilo Poccia Principal Evangelist, Serverless @danilop What Can You Do with Serverless …in 2020 ? © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Danilo Poccia Principal Evangelist, Serverless @danilop What Can You Do with Serverless …in 2020 ?
2. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. https://danilop.net https://github.com/danilop/danilop-personal-page
3. © 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
4. © 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
5. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Serverless in the first half of 2015 Static Content Generators! S3 Bucket Lambda Function S3 Bucket
6. © 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
7. © 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
8. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Over the years, customers shared some concerns… New Paradigm Scalability Costs Latency Language Support
9. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Observability Configuration Management Function Invocations Execution Environment Service Integrations So what have we been focusing on?
10. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Latency Observability Configuration Management Function Invocations Execution Environment Service Integrations Language Support Costs Scalability New Paradigm
11. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Function Invocations
12. © 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
13. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Configuring Async Invocations
14. © 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
15. © 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
16. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Kinesis / DynamoDB Streams Controls
17. © 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%
18. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Amazon API Gateway – HTTP APIs
19. © 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
20. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. ALB Weighted Target Groups
21. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Execution Environment Language Support Runtimes Node.js 12 Python 3.8 Java 11 .NET Core 3.1 Custom Runtimes (Rust, Swift, …) Lambda@Edge now supports Node 12.x & Python 3.8 ⇣ Use your favorite programming language Easier to migrate existing apps
22. © 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)
23. © 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
24. © 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
25. © 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
26. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. AWS Step Functions – Express Workflows
27. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. AWS Step Functions – AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code
28. © 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
29. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Amazon RDS Proxy – How It Works Preview
30. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. RDS Proxy + Amazon Aurora Serverless = Sample workload using Aurora Serverless PostgreSQL
31. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Service Integrations Costs New Paradigm Amazon EventBridge Schema Registry Rules can now be triggered by CloudWatch Alarms ⇣ Building event-driven apps with IDE integration Integrating PaaS solutions with your apps
32. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates.
33. © 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!
34. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Amazon Athena – Create your own data connector Preview
35. © 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
36. © 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
37. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Enhanced Real-Time Experience on AWS AppSync
38. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Configuration Management New Paradigm AWS AppConfig For EC2, containers, on-premises, Lambda, containers, mobile apps, IoT devices Application Environment Configuration Profile ⇣ Releasing configurations changes with fine-grained controls
39. © 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
40. © 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
41. © 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
42. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Using CloudWatch Embedded Metric Format
43. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. CloudWatch Synthetics – Monitor Application Endpoints
44. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. CloudWatch ServiceLens CloudWatch metrics and logs + AWS X-Ray traces
45. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Using CloudWatch Anomaly Detection Alarms
46. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Editing the Anomaly Detection Model
47. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Observability Configuration Management Function Invocations Execution Environment Service Integrations Latency Language Support Costs Scalability New Paradigm
48. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Observability Configuration Management Function Invocations Execution Environment Service Integrations Lots of concerns have been addressed…
49. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. More tooling available
50. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Compute Savings Plans Simplify purchasing with a flexible pricing model applying to Amazon EC2, AWS Fargate, and AWS Lambda usage Recommendations in AWS Cost Explorer Any instance family, any region VMs, Containers, and Functions Flexibility
51. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Serverless Lens in AWS Well-Architected Tool N ew
52. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Photo by Scott Blake on Unsplash Some Examples
53. Siemens employs 377,000 people who speak almost 50 different languages 3 euros per interview Amazon Translate + Amazon Comprehend + Amazon SageMaker “By using AWS Lambda functions, we are running translations with just three lines of code” Siemens Employee Surveys less than one euro per interview Case Study
54. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Roomba Vacuum Cleaners
55. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Roomba Vacuum Cleaners
56. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. fractional delivery Run simulation jobs and add logs to S3 bucket Lambda function FanOut Step Function parallel jobs Lambda function If successful, get output If failed, get execution history Start AWS RoboMaker Update Amazon DynamoDB with job IDS Aggregate Results Parse Logs logs in S3 bucket Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Amazon DynamoDB AWS RoboMaker Check simulation job status Trigger Lambda every 2 minutes Amazon CloudWatch Event Time Based Send task success/failure heartbeat Controller Step Function FanOut Tests Step Function AWS Step Functions workflow AWS Step Functions workflow Start controller execution and wait to finish 1 2 3 4 5 6
57. © 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!
58. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. What Can You Do with Serverless …in 2020 ?
59. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. What Are You Going to Build …in 2020 ?
60. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Thank you! @danilop Please give me your feedback!