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Julian Wood

Author: Julian Wood

Julian Wood is a Senior Developer Advocate for the AWS Serverless team. He loves helping developers and builders learn about, and love, how serverless technologies can transform the way they build and run applications at any scale. Julian was an infrastructure architect and manager in global enterprises and start-ups for more than 25 years before going all-in on serverless at AWS.

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Introducing payload-based message filtering for Amazon SNS

This post is written by Prachi Sharma (Software Development Manager, Amazon SNS), Mithun Mallick (Principal Solutions Architect, AWS Integration Services), and Otavio Ferreira (Sr. Software Development Manager, Amazon SNS). Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a messaging service for Application-to-Application (A2A) and Application-to-Person (A2P) communication. The A2A functionality provides high-throughput, push-based, many-to-many messaging between distributed […]

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Introducing the AWS Lambda Telemetry API

This blog post is written by Anton Aleksandrov, Principal Solution Architect and Shridhar Pandey, Senior Product Manager Today AWS is announcing the AWS Lambda Telemetry API. This provides an easier way to receive enhanced function telemetry directly from the Lambda service and send it to custom destinations. This makes it easier for developers and operators […]

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Building AWS Lambda governance and guardrails

When building serverless applications using AWS Lambda, there are a number of considerations regarding security, governance, and compliance. This post highlights how Lambda, as a serverless service, simplifies cloud security and compliance so you can concentrate on your business logic. It covers controls that you can implement for your Lambda workloads to ensure that your […]

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Securely retrieving secrets with AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda functions often need to access secrets, such as certificates, API keys, or database passwords. Storing secrets outside the function code in an external secrets manager helps to avoid exposing secrets in application source code. Using a secrets manager also allows you to audit and control access, and can help with secret rotation. Do […]

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Scaling AWS Lambda permissions with Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

This blog post is written by Chris McPeek, Principal Solutions Architect. AWS Lambda now supports attribute-based access control (ABAC), allowing you to control access to Lambda functions within AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) using tags. With ABAC, you can scale an access control strategy by setting granular permissions with tags without requiring permissions updates […]

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Introducing Amazon CodeWhisperer in the AWS Lambda console (In preview)

This blog post is written by Mark Richman, Senior Solutions Architect. Today, AWS is launching a new capability to integrate the Amazon CodeWhisperer experience with the AWS Lambda console code editor. Amazon CodeWhisperer is a machine learning (ML)–powered service that helps improve developer productivity. It generates code recommendations based on their code comments written in […]

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Understanding AWS Lambda scaling and throughput

Update: AWS Lambda functions now scale 12 times faster when handling high-volume requests. For more information, see the announcement post. AWS Lambda provides a serverless compute service that can scale from a single request to hundreds of thousands per second. When designing your application, especially for high load, it helps to understand how Lambda handles […]

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Simplifying serverless best practices with AWS Lambda Powertools for TypeScript

This blog post is written by Sara Gerion, Senior Solutions Architect. Development teams must have a shared understanding of the workloads they own and their expected behaviors to deliver business value fast and with confidence. The AWS Well-Architected Framework and its Serverless Lens provide architectural best practices for designing and operating reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective […]

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Building a low-code speech “you know” counter using AWS Step Functions

This post is written by Doug Toppin, Software Development Engineer, and Kishore Dhamodaran, Solutions Architect. In public speaking, filler phrases can distract the audience and reduce the value and impact of what you are telling them. Reviewing recordings of presentations can be helpful to determine whether presenters are using filler phrases. Instead of manually reviewing […]