In Season 3, Episode 40 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Chetan Hirapara. They discuss Lambda, CloudFormation Deployments, Anthropic, Amazon Q Developer plugins, Amazon Bedrock Agents and Karl suggests that you should choose a cloud provider based on your favourite colour....

06:53 - AWS Lambda turns 10: A rare look at the doc that started it

- Overview of the original PR FAQ document for Lambda

- Lambda was the first functions-as-a-service offering

- Lambda originally only supported Node.js, now supports many more languages and frameworks

- Billing granularity has improved from 250ms increments originally to 1ms now

- Cold start times for Java apps reduced by 90% with SnapStart

15:49 - Peek inside your AWS CloudFormation Deployments with timeline view

- It provides a waterfall view of CloudFormation deployments

- Helps identify bottlenecks and long-running operations

- Can help optimize deployments by splitting stacks, parallelizing, etc.

21:11 - Amazon considering further investment in Anthropic

- Amazon invested $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic in March 2022