AWS Compute Blog
Author: Joshua Smith
Joshua Smith is a Senior Solutions Architect working with digital-native customers at AWS. He is passionate about solving high-scale distributed systems challenges and helping cloud-native customers build secure, reliable, and cost-effective solutions. He has a background in security and systems engineering, working with early startups, large enterprises, and federal agencies.
Streamlining trace sampling behavior for AWS Lambda functions with AWS X-Ray
This post explores the importance of distributed tracing for operating serverless applications and announces an important update to tracing behavior for AWS Lambda, which streamlines how trace context is handled in PassThrough mode. This blog post will demonstrate how this change gives you better control over how your Lambda functions handle tracing with AWS X-Ray through practical examples. Whether you’re building new applications or operating existing ones, this update helps you achieve more predictable and efficient tracing across your serverless applications built using Lambda.