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Architecting multiple microservices behind a single domain with Amazon API Gateway

This post is courtesy of Roberto Iturralde, Solutions Architect. Today’s modern architectures are increasingly microservices-based, with separate engineering teams working independently on services with their own feature requirements and deployment pipelines. The benefits of this approach include increased agility and release velocity. Microservice architectures also come with some challenges, particularly when they make up parts […]

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ICYMI: Serverless Q2 2019

This post is courtesy of Moheeb Zara, Senior Developer Advocate – AWS Serverless Welcome to the sixth edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap. Every quarter, we share all of the most recent product launches, feature enhancements, blog posts, webinars, Twitch live streams, and other interesting things that you […]

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Step Functions

Configuring user creation workflows with AWS Step Functions and AWS Managed Microsoft AD logs

This post is contributed by Taka Matsumoto, Cloud Support Engineer AWS Directory Service lets you run Microsoft Active Directory as a managed service. Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also referred to as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, is powered by Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2. It manages users and makes it easy to integrate with compatible AWS services […]

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ICYMI: Serverless Q1 2019

Welcome to the fifth edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap. Every quarter, we share all of the most recent product launches, feature enhancements, blog posts, webinars, Twitch live streams, and other interesting things that you might have missed! If you didn’t see them, check our previous posts for what […]

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From Poll to Push: Transform APIs using Amazon API Gateway REST APIs and WebSockets

This post is courtesy of Adam Westrich – AWS Principal Solutions Architect and Ronan Prenty – Cloud Support Engineer Want to deploy a web application and give a large number of users controlled access to data analytics? Or maybe you have a retail site that is fulfilling purchase orders, or an app that enables users to […]

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Deploying a personalized API Gateway serverless developer portal

This post is courtesy of Drew Dresser, Application Architect – AWS Professional Services Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. Customers of these APIs often want a website to learn and discover APIs that are available to […]

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ICYMI: Serverless Q4 2018

This post is courtesy of Eric Johnson, Senior Developer Advocate – AWS Serverless Welcome to the fourth edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap. Every quarter, we share all of the most recent product launches, feature enhancements, blog posts, webinars, Twitch live streams, and other interesting things that you […]

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Announcing WebSocket APIs in Amazon API Gateway

This post is courtesy of Diego Magalhaes, AWS Senior Solutions Architect – World Wide Public Sector-Canada & JT Thompson, AWS Principal Software Development Engineer – Amazon API Gateway Starting today, you can build bidirectional communication applications using WebSocket APIs in Amazon API Gateway without having to provision and manage any servers. HTTP-based APIs use a request/response […]

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Step Functions

Building Simpler Genomics Workflows on AWS Step Functions

This post is courtesy of Ryan Ulaszek, AWS Genomics Partner Solutions Architect and Aaron Friedman, AWS Healthcare and Life Sciences Partner Solutions Architect In 2017, we published a four part blog series on how to build a genomics workflow on AWS. In part 1, we introduced a general architecture highlighting three common layers: job, batch and […]

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Announcing Ruby Support for AWS Lambda

This post is courtesy of Xiang Shen Senior – AWS Solutions Architect and Alex Wood Software Development Engineer – AWS SDKs and Tools Ruby remains a popular programming language for AWS customers. In the summer of 2011, AWS introduced the initial release of AWS SDK for Ruby, which has helped Ruby developers to better integrate and […]

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