Category: Front-End Web & Mobile

At AWS we have had a number of HIPAA eligible service announcements. Patrick Combes, the Healthcare and Life Sciences Global Technical Leader at AWS, and Aaron Friedman, a Healthcare and Life Sciences Partner Solutions Architect at AWS, have written this post to tell you all about it. -Ana We are pleased to announce that the […]

In the guest post below, my colleague Tim Bray explains how he built IsItOnAWS.com . Powered by the list of AWS IP address ranges and using a pair of AWS Lambda functions that Tim wrote, the site aims to tell you if your favorite website is running on AWS. — Jeff; Is it on AWS? […]

2016 was an exciting year for AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway and serverless compute technology, to say the least. But just in case you have been hiding away and haven’t heard of serverless computing with AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway, let me introduce these great services to you.  AWS Lambda lets you run code […]

I announced the AWS Serverless Chatbot Competion in August and invited you to build a chatbot for Slack using AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway. Last week I sat down with fellow judges Tim Wagner (General Manager of AWS Lambda) and Cecilia Deng (a Software Development Engineer on Tim’s team) to watch the videos and […]

Express is a web framework for Node.js . It simplifies the development of “serverless” web sites, web applications, and APIs. In a serverless environment, most or all of the backend logic is run on-demand in a stateless fashion (see Mike Roberts’ article on Serverless Architectures for a more detailed introduction). AWS Lambda, when used in […]

Amazon API Gateway allows you to quickly and easily build and run application backends that are robust and scalable. With the recent addition of usage plans, you can create an ecosystem of partner developers around your APIs. Let’s review some terminology to start things off: Endpoint – A URL (provided by API Gateway) that responds […]

We introduced the Amazon API Gateway last year in order to allow developers to build backend web services for mobile, web, enterprise, and IoT applications (read Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backend to learn more). Since that time, AWS customers have built API implementations that run on AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic […]

Earlier this month I was asked to be a judge for the AWS Serverless Chatbot Competition and I was happy to accept! Build a Chatbot We want you to build a chatbot for Slack using AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway. You can also use other APIs (the Slack Events API will be helpful), additional […]