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Benjamin Smith

Author: Benjamin Smith

Ben is a senior developer advocate for Serverless Applications at Amazon Web Services based in London, UK. Ben works with AWS's developer customers to understand how serverless technologies can drastically change the way they think about building and running applications at potentially massive scale with minimal operations overhead. Prior to joining AWS Ben worked in a number of different technical roles specializing in workflow Automation and web development. Ben has a 1st Class Bachelor of Science degree in Multimedia & Digital systems from the University of Sussex.

Introducing AWS Step Functions redrive to recover from failures more easily

Developers use AWS Step Functions, a visual workflow service to build distributed applications, automate IT and business processes, and orchestrate AWS services with minimal code. Step Functions redrive for Standard Workflows allows you to redrive a failed workflow execution from its point of failure, rather than having to restart the entire workflow. This blog post […]

Orchestrating dependent file uploads with AWS Step Functions

This post is written by Nelson Assis, Enterprise Support Lead, Serverless and Jevon Liburd, Technical Account Manager, Serverless Amazon S3 is an object storage service that many customers use for file storage. With the use of Amazon S3 Event Notifications or Amazon EventBridge customers can create workloads with event-driven architecture (EDA). This architecture responds to […]

Archiving and replaying messages with Amazon SNS FIFO

This post is written by Mohammed Atiq, Solutions Architect and Mithun Mallick, Principal Solutions Architect, Serverless Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) offers a flexible, fully managed messaging service, allowing applications to send and receive messages. SNS acts as a channel, delivering events from publishers to subscribers. Today, AWS is announcing a new capability that enables […]

Serverless ICYMI Q3 2023

Welcome to the 23rd edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap. Every quarter, we share all the most recent product launches, feature enhancements, blog posts, webinars, live streams, and other interesting things that you might have missed! In case you missed our last ICYMI, check out what happened last […]

Enhancing Workflow Studio with new features for streamlined authoring

AWS Step Functions is emerging as a foundational tool for building scalable and distributed serverless applications through workflows. In 2021, the Step Functions team launched Workflow Studio, a low-code visual tool for creating Step Functions workflows in the AWS Management Console. This made workflow building accessible even to those with limited coding experience. In response to […]

Serverless ICYMI Q2 2023

Welcome to the 22nd edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap. Every quarter, we share all the most recent product launches, feature enhancements, blog posts, webinars, live streams, and other interesting things that you might have missed! In case you missed our last ICYMI, check out what happened last […]

Deploying state machines incrementally with versions and aliases in AWS Step Functions

This post is written by Peter Smith, Principal Engineer for AWS Step Functions This blog post explains the new versions and aliases feature in AWS Step Functions, allowing you to run specific revisions of the state machine instead of always using the latest. This allows for more reliable deployments that help control risk, and provide […]

AWS Lambda now supports Java 17

This post was written by Mark Sailes, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, Serverless. You can now develop AWS Lambda functions with the Amazon Corretto distribution of Java 17. This version of Corretto comes with long-term support (LTS), which means it will receive updates and bug fixes for an extended period, providing stability and reliability to developers […]

Implementing reactive progress tracking for AWS Step Functions

This blog post is written by Alexey Paramonov, Solutions Architect, ISV and Maximilian Schellhorn, Solutions Architect ISV This blog post demonstrates a solution based on AWS Step Functions and Amazon API Gateway WebSockets to track execution progress of a long running workflow. The solution updates the frontend regularly and users are able to track the […]