Background I recently re-certified the AWS Security Speciality exam. To me, it remains one of my favourite exams, and also one of the most beneficial for anyone looking to improve their AWS knowledge. It doesn’t matter whether your interest is in containers or serverless, machine learning or data and analytics - you should understand topics like identity and access management, infrastructure security and data protection to deliver more secure solutions.

Last week, AWS announced the beta release of AWS Lambda Powertools Typescript. This is a suite of TypeScript utilities for AWS Lambda functions to enable the adoption of best practices in areas such as structured logging, tracing and custom metrics. Over the past few years, serverless architectures on AWS have converged upon multiple individual AWS Lambda functions, with each one implementing least privilege and responsible for one task (single responsibility principle).