Serverless 10th Anniversary
2024 marks 10 years of Serverless with AWS Lambda and Amazon ECS as products. Bedrock also celebrates 1 year at our AI/ML Services & Infrastructure Town Hall. As I was looking through old emails, I found a cool coincidence: October 28, 2022, the same date as ECS’s anniversary, was the day I sent my transition email to the team at that time. It felt like a full-circle moment.
Containers & Serverless Journey
Being part of the virtualization and container organization (Developers, Events, Containers and Serverless: DECS) was one of the most rewarding chapters of my time as a builder. My passion for this tech led me to dive deep, spending nearly all my time from 2020 to 2022 on related projects. Beyond the technology itself, I was drawn to the open culture of the community, actively engaging in external activities with The Linux Foundation and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Revisiting my 2022 recap blog post. I was fortunate to be on the AWS App Runner founding team from its incubation stage as a Fargate engineer, which also led to my promotion to L6. Building a public product from 0 to 1, and working on foundational, bottom-level engineering tasks here was an unforgettable experience.
I owe so much to my leaders and colleagues: my managers, Mats, Anupam, Prashant (now VP at Datadog), Joyita, with whom I later collaborated on another cool database index project in S3, and Jason (my last director manager at AWS App Runner); my skip, Inbal (now CPO of Twilio and formerly CPO of GitHub); and Deepak, our VP back then and currently VP of NGDE (Amazon Q & CodeWhisperer), one of my current team's clients. Deepak’s “Friday Notes” emails continue to be an inspiring read, and I’m so grateful for their guidance and support. A lot has changed since then. AWS App Runner joined AWS Lambda the same month I switched team. Some ECS/Fargate colleagues transitioned to different organizations, such as Annapurna, EKS, over the following years, some stay.
Serverless LLM
Someone says Bedrock is the "Lambda of LLM. " I say it is more than that.. LLM inference is a hot topic, and serverless architecture continues to play a key role in handling the heavy lifting, enabling high performance, high availability, and high efficiency delivery of AI/ML value to customers. This principle has held true since before the 'Attention is All You Need' era.
AWS's VP Swami also noted: "Serverless infrastructure is the backbone of agentic AI systems providing on-demand resources without needing to manage servers.."
Keep Going. Serverless & Containers!
Learn more 10 Years of Serverless: https://aws.amazon.com/serverless/10th-anniversary/
