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Serverless Office Hours Livestreams 2026

A weekly livestream to learn about building serverless applications. We cover a separate topic each week including what’s new with serverless, deep dives into feature launches and best practices, and explore real world use-cases.

Building with Claude: Lessons from real projects

Jun 03, 2026: Learn how an AWS Serverless Hero ships with Claude every day and what actually moves the needle.


AI-assisted development in practice

May 27, 2026: How to build a complete serverless platform using AI coding tools.


Building Apps with AI + MCP Servers

May 20, 2026: How to go from a simple prompt to a working serverless app in minutes?


How serverless experts build with AI today

May 13, 2026: Want to know how serverless experts built an entire learning platform using AI in evenings and weekends?


Automating AWS Lambda runtime upgrades

May 06, 2026: Ready to automate your AWS Lambda runtime upgrades?


Automating AWS Lambda runtime upgrades

May 06, 2026: Ready to automate your AWS Lambda runtime upgrades?


AWS Lambda durable functions: Best Practices, AI patterns, and Futures

Apr 22, 2026: Can your GenAI workflows survive a failure, or do they start over every time?


AWS Lambda durable functions: Best Practices, AI patterns, and Futures

Apr 22, 2026: Can your GenAI workflows survive a failure, or do they start over every time?


Serverless Apache Airflow

Apr 15, 2026: Want to optimize your data pipeline orchestration on AWS?


AWS Lambda Performance Tuning

Apr 08, 2026: Learn about opportunities to optimize your serverless applications built with AWS Lambda.


Building Real-Time Applications at Scale

Apr 01, 2026: Want to scale real-time applications to millions of users with modern event-driven architectures?


Building Real-Time Applications at Scale

Apr 01, 2026: Want to scale real-time applications to millions of users with modern event-driven architectures?


AWS MCP server

Mar 25, 2026: Want to build AWS infrastructure using natural language?


AWS MCP server

Mar 25, 2026: Want to build AWS infrastructure using natural language?


Analytics for Modern Data Lakes & AI

Mar 18, 2026: Learn how to run serverless analytics at scale.


Analytics for Modern Data Lakes & AI

Mar 18, 2026: Learn how to run serverless analytics at scale.


Serverless resilience: A practitioner’s guide

Mar 11, 2026: Is your serverless architecture truly resilient, or just hoping the platform holds?


AI for content creators

Feb 25, 2026: Want to repurpose your content across multiple platforms?


AI & Java

Feb 18, 2026: Learn how to build modern AI-powered applications with Java.


Observability for Distributed Systems

Feb 11, 2026: Want better visibility into your distributed serverless systems?


App Modernization with CDK Blueprints

Feb 04, 2026: Learn how to accelerate serverless application development with Application Modernization CDK Blueprints.


App Modernization with CDK Blueprints

Feb 04, 2026: Learn how to accelerate serverless application development with Application Modernization CDK Blueprints.


AWS Step Functions Local Testing

Jan 28, 2026: New Step Functions local testing features.


New: AWS Lambda tenant isolation

Jan 21, 2026: Learn how to build secure multi-tenant SaaS applications with AWS Lambda’s new tenant isolation mode.


What’s New: AWS Lambda event source mappings

Jan 14, 2026: Rohan Mehta and Nihar Sheth join Julian Wood to show the latest improvements to Lambda event source mappings for processing events from SQS, Kinesis, DynamoDB Streams, MSK, and Kafka.


New: Amazon API Gateway response streaming

Jan 07, 2026: Learn how to improve API responsiveness and user experience with Amazon API Gateway’s new response streaming capability.