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Eric Johnson

Author: Eric Johnson

Eric Johnson is a Principal Developer Advocate for Serverless Applications at Amazon Web Services and is based in Northern Colorado. Eric is a fanatic about serverless and enjoys helping developers understand how serverless technologies introduces a major paradigm shift in how they approach building and running applications at massive scale with minimal administration overhead. Prior to this, Eric has worked as a developer, solutions architect and AWS Evangelist for an AWS partner company.

Simplifying private API integrations with Amazon EventBridge and AWS Step Functions

AWS announces new integration capabilities for Amazon EventBridge and AWS Step Functions, enabling direct communication with private APIs using AWS PrivateLink and Amazon VPC Lattice. This enhancement streamlines secure application interactions across private networks, on-premises infrastructure, and cloud platforms, offering improved security, simplified architecture, and enhanced performance for enterprise-level deployments.

Introducing JSONL support with Step Functions Distributed Map

This post written by Uma Ramadoss, Principal Specialist SA, Serverless and Vinita Shadangi, Senior Specialist SA, Serverless. Today, AWS Step Functions is expanding the capabilities of Distributed Map by adding support for JSON Lines (JSONL) format. JSONL, a highly efficient text-based format, stores structured data as individual JSON objects separated by newlines, making it particularly […]

Serverless ICYMI Q4 2024

Welcome to the 27th edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap. At the end of a quarter, we share 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 […]

Serverless ICYMI Q4 2023

Welcome to the 24th 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 […]

Introducing support for read-only management events in Amazon EventBridge

Today, AWS is announcing support for read-only management events in Amazon EventBridge. This feature enables customers to build rich event-driven responses from any action taken on AWS infrastructure to detect security vulnerabilities or identify suspicious activity in near real-time. You can now gain insight into all activity across all your AWS accounts and respond to those events as is appropriate.

AWS SAM support for HashiCorp Terraform now generally available

In November 2022, AWS announced the public preview of AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) support for HashiCorp Terraform. The public preview introduces a subset of features to help Terraform users test serverless applications locally. Today, AWS is announcing the general availability of Terraform support in AWS SAM. This GA release expands AWS SAM’s feature […]

Developing a serverless Slack app using AWS Step Functions and AWS Lambda

This blog was written by Sam Wilson, Cloud Application Architect and John Lopez, Cloud Application Architect. Slack, as an enterprise collaboration and communication service, presents opportunities for builders to improve efficiency through implementing custom-written Slack Applications (apps). One such opportunity is to expose existing AWS resources to your organization without your employees needing AWS Management […]

Implementing cross-account CI/CD with AWS SAM for container-based Lambda functions

Containerized applications often have several distinct environments and accounts, such as dev, test, and prod. An application has to go through a process of deployment and testing in these environments. One common pattern for deploying containerized applications is to have a central AWS create a single container image, and carry out deployment across other AWS accounts. To achieve automated deployment of the application across different environments, customers use CI/CD pipelines with familiar container tooling. This blog post explores how to use AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) Pipelines to create a CI/CD deployment pipeline and deploy a container-based Lambda function across multiple accounts.

Implementing error handling for AWS Lambda asynchronous invocations

This blog is written by Poornima Chand, Senior Solutions Architect, Strategic Accounts and Giedrius Praspaliauskas, Senior Solutions Architect, Serverless. AWS Lambda functions allow both synchronous and asynchronous invocations, which both have different function behaviors and error handling: When you invoke a function synchronously, Lambda returns any unhandled errors in the function code back to the […]