Category: Application Services

All the feature launches, blogs, videos, tech talks and more happenings from the AWS Serverless service teams in Q1 2021.

Amazon API Gateway recently enhanced base path mapping for custom domains by introducing multi-level base path mapping. Before multi-level base path mapping, paths could not contain a forward slash (/) in a base path. This restriction meant that base paths could only consist of a single word (for example, sales) or a concatenation of several […]

This post is written by Rudolf Potucek, Startup Solutions Architect. Amazon API Gateway REST APIs have supported binary data since 2016. API Gateway HTTP APIs makes it easier to work with both binary and text media types. It supports a new payload format version and infers encoding based on request and response formats. In this […]

This article presents an architecture that enables customers to use Step Functions workflow callbacks without exposing the implementation and AWS service details to external systems.

In this blog post, you learn how to use AWS Step Functions and parallel processing to complete four hours of work in 60 seconds. You learn how to apply the pattern of decomposition to achieve improved scalability and manageability.

X-Ray is a powerful tool for providing observability in serverless applications. With the launch of X-Ray passive tracing in EventBridge, this allows you to trace requests across distributed applications more easily.

In this blog post, I explain how to secure workloads with public endpoints and the different authentication and authorization options available. I also show different approaches to exposing APIs publicly.

This post introduces the Simple Trivia Service, a single- and multi-player game built using a serverless-first architecture on AWS. I cover different solutions that you can use to enable connectivity from your game client to a serverless-first backend for both single- and multi-player games.

This post was written by Michael Hume – AWS Solutions Architect Public Sector UKIR. Customers often want to use Amazon API Gateway REST APIs to send requests to private resources. This feature is useful for building secure architectures using Amazon EC2 instances or container-based services on Amazon ECS or Amazon EKS, which reside within a […]

At re:Invent 2020, AWS announced that you can package and deploy AWS Lambda functions as container images. Packaging AWS Lambda functions as container images brings some notable benefits for developers running custom runtimes, such as PHP. This blog post explains those benefits and shows how to use the new container image support for Lambda functions […]